Heidelberg
University city on the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, home to the country's oldest university.
Heidelberg is a university city of around 160,000 people on the River Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, home to Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, Germany's oldest.
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Retained as Aleph Alpha's research site after close
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Heidelberg is a university city of around 160,000 people on the River Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, near Mannheim. Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, is Germany's oldest, and the city's old town and hilltop castle ruins draw millions of visitors a year.
The city is also home to Aleph Alpha, the German AI company founded there in 2019. Aleph Alpha's Heidelberg office is set to become a research site for Cohere once the two firms' 2026 business combination closes, keeping a research presence in the city even as the merged company's headquarters splits between Berlin and Toronto.
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