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Aleph Alpha
German sovereign AI company; merging with Cohere at 90/10 equity split with Schwarz €500m anchor and Berlin sovereignty conditions.
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#16 22 Sept
Named by Verda as a customer
European Tech Sovereignty: Mentioned in: Verda raises $189m for Finnish megawatts#16 16 Sept
Agreed to combine into Cohere, retaining a Heidelberg research site
European Tech Sovereignty: Aleph Alpha signs itself into Cohere#16 16 Sept
#1 2 Aug
Mentioned in: AI Office gains enforcement powers in August
European Tech Sovereignty#11 31 Jul
Mentioned in: Marking code draws 190, none of them TV
Media's AI Pivot#14 30 Jul
Mentioned in: Germany declines to open an SAP case
European Tech Sovereignty#11 3 Jul
Remained subject to unresolved German protective-rights terms
European Tech Sovereignty: Aleph Alpha merger stalls on Berlin#10 27 Jun
Mentioned in: US partly lifts its Anthropic model curb
European Tech Sovereignty#10 12 Jun
Mentioned in: US order pulls Anthropic's top models
European Tech Sovereignty#5 19 May
Mentioned in: Germany pays maintainers to staff IETF and W3C
European Tech Sovereignty#5 7 May
Mentioned in: AI Omnibus deal splits enforcement into two speeds
European Tech Sovereignty#5 25 Apr
Merged with Cohere at 90/10 split; dual HQ Canada-Germany
European Tech Sovereignty: Cohere-Aleph Alpha settle at 90/10, no filing yet#4 24 Apr
Merged with Cohere; combined entity valued at $20bn
European Tech Sovereignty: Schwarz triangle closes at $20bn merger#3 23 Apr
Mentioned in: Brussels sovereignty summit opens without European AI builders
European Tech Sovereignty#3 23 Apr
Continued merger talks with Cohere without lodging a Bundeskartellamt filing
European Tech Sovereignty: Cohere-Aleph Alpha merger still unfiled four weeks in#2 16 Apr
Mentioned in: DMA orders Google to open search data
European Tech Sovereignty#1 16 Apr
Mentioned in: UK launches £500m Sovereign AI Unit
European Tech Sovereignty#2 16 Apr
Mentioned in: UK names first Sovereign AI investees
European Tech Sovereignty#2 15 Apr
Mentioned in: Meta faces DMA order on WhatsApp AI
European Tech Sovereignty#1 10 Apr
entered advanced merger talks with Cohere while Berlin sought sovereignty conditions
European Tech Sovereignty: Cohere and Aleph Alpha in merger talks#1 10 Apr
#1 10 Apr
#1 10 Apr
“signalled anchor customer commitment with conditions”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#1 10 Apr
#2 15 Oct
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