Aleph Alpha, founded in 2019, develops large language models and AI offerings that emphasize customer sovereignty, EU-regulated data protection and security. The company often works with governmental bodies, law enforcement and healthcare clients and focuses on deployments that can run on-premise, in cloud or hybrid setups. It positions itself to help large corporates deploy LLMs internally while preserving control over implementation. Aleph Alpha has about 70 employees. Management says the company will continue to expand its offerings while maintaining independence and flexibility for customers on infrastructure and cloud compatibility. The startup has attracted strategic corporate backers, underscoring its enterprise and public-sector focus. Aleph Alpha researches, develops and operationalizes large, multimodal AI systems aimed at generalizable AI, offering GPT-3-like text, vision and strategy models. The company plans to run a public API so public and private-sector users can run experiments and build applications. It emphasizes open-source community engagement, academic partnerships, and adherence to European values, ethical standards and GDPR. Aleph Alpha aims to provide a sovereign, EU-based compute infrastructure for European public and private sector customers. The funding will accelerate bringing the latest generation of AI technology into application and support digital sovereignty goals. Headquartered in Heidelberg and founded in 2019, the company has so far raised a total of €28.3M ($33.3M). Aleph Alpha develops strong Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) technology and provides access to its models via an API for partners in academia, government and industry. Headquartered in Heidelberg and founded in 2019, the company emphasizes 'Made in Europe' AGI with a focus on data sovereignty and handling sensitive information. It plans to start with a German GPT-3–style model for high-security environments and then expand to new application environments, other EU countries, and sectors. The €5.3 million seed funding is intended to support research, development, operationalization of AGI and to attract European AI scientists and engineers. Aleph Alpha aims to build European thought leadership on AGI and create a European AI ecosystem to reduce reliance on non‑European providers. Founder and CEO Jonas Andrulis, formerly AI Research Director at Apple’s Special Projects Group, leads the technical team and industry-science network.

Total raised

$534M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Nov 2023