About Us

Aleph Alpha was founded in 2019 with the mission to research and build sovereign, human-centric AI for a better world. With a team of international scientists, engineers, and innovators, we research and build transformative AI solutions. 

Core Values

Since Aleph Alpha was founded in 2019 our work is guided by two values central to our mission

Our Executive Team

Jonas Andrulis
Co-Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Reto Spörri
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Samuel Weinbach
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Research Officer
Carsten Dirks
Chief Operating Officer
Tobias Haar
General Counsel
Dr. Yasser Jadidi
Co-Chief Research Officer
Christopher Kraenzler
Chief Product Officer
Andy Lippert
Vice President Infrastructure
Ilhan Scheer
Chief Growth Officer
Johannes Spindler
Chief of Staff
Benjamin Oppl
Vice President People & Culture

Our History

2024
September
Launch of TFree
A new architecture that slows LLMs to learn low-resource languages, out-of-distribution knowledge and rare knowledge
2024
August
Launch of PhariaAI
Pharia AI is an end-to-end stack for generative AI systems and innovations in an enterprise-ready setup with unique capabilities for control, transparency and compliance
2024
June
Launch of creance.ai
Generative AI solution for compliance
2023
November
$500M Series B funding round
2023
April
Introduction of world’s first explainability function for LLMs
2022
October
Launch of LUMI
The world’s first generative AI chatbot for the public sector
2022
September
Opening of alpha ONE
The fastest European commercial AI Data Centre. Located in Bavaria and equipped with 512 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, Alpha One offers 7.625 petaflops of computational power.
2022
April
First major AI model launch
Aleph Alpha releases Luminous, the world’s first multimodal and multilanguage large language model
2021
July
Series A funding round – €23M
2021
January
€5.3M Seed funding round
Aleph Alpha secures its first round of funding to build Europe-based generative AI technology
2019
January
Aleph Alpha is founded
Apple R&D Manager and serial entrepreneur Jonas Andrulis and Deloitte AI Expert Samuel Weinbach found Aleph Alpha in Heidelberg, Germany, with the vision to research and build the foundational technology for an era of strong AI

Aleph Alpha products are built to ensure technological sovereignty in the AI era for the world’s best enterprises and governments.

Our Commitment to AI Compliance and Excellence

We are actively aligning our practices with upcoming regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, and have obtained ISO 27001 certification as a testament to our exceptional commitment to information security and regulatory compliance.

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