Enterprise AI, at Last
Aleph Alpha: The Right Model Aleph Alpha, founded in Heidelberg in 2019 by Jonas Andrulis, built Luminous — a full LLM. Not a wrapper, not a fine-tune of someone else’s weights. Their own architecture, their own training, their own inference. They sit in the same category as OpenAI and Anthropic: model creators, not mills. Their positioning was correct from the start: European sovereign AI. Data stays in Europe. No US cloud dependency. Strong traction with German public sector and defence. The differentiator is not raw benchmark performance — it is explainability and data sovereignty. ...