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Aleph Alpha

IA souveraine · Allemagne
Fondé en 2019 · aleph-alpha.com

Heidelberg-based sovereign-AI lab (Pharia platform); merger with Canadian Cohere announced April 2026: Aleph Alpha shareholders to receive ~10% of combined ~$20B entity.

Aleph Alpha propose un hébergement européen en Allemagne, mais une maison mère ou un sous-traitant américain laisse une exposition matérielle au CLOUD Act. Référencé dans la catégorie IA souveraine.

Notes d’évaluation

Aleph Alpha (Heidelberg, Germany; founded 2019; offices in Berlin, Bayreuth, Munich) was structured as Germany's flagship sovereign AI vendor with anchor investors Schwarz Group, Bosch Ventures, SAP, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. On 24 April 2026 Toronto-based Cohere announced a merger that gives Cohere shareholders ~90% of the combined ~US$20B entity, with Aleph Alpha shareholders receiving ~10%; Schwarz Group is committing US$600M to Cohere's Series E to back the sovereign-AI delivery via STACKIT post-close. Pre-merger Aleph Alpha was structurally eu_owned; the announced merger to a Canada-headquartered AI company with heavy US-VC funding shifts the listing to eu_hq_us_funded with material CLOUD Act exposure, pending re-verification after the merger closes. At the 2026-08-26 re-verify the deal had been announced but had not closed: it remains subject to regulatory conditions, the site carries no Cohere branding, and the imprint names Aleph Alpha GmbH (HRB 732804, Amtsgericht Mannheim, managing directors Reto Spörri and Ilhan Scheer) with no Cohere parent or shareholder. No public DPA or sub-processors list found at audit; certifications unconfirmed.

Constats

CLOUD Act
Actionnariat
Sous-traitants
— non divulgué

Signaux vérifiés

Juridiction
  • Hébergement UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Opérateur UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Aucune exposition au CLOUD Act: Non
Transparence
  • DPA public: Non
  • Sous-traitants divulgués: Non
  • Clients open source: Non
  • Certification tierce: Non
CLOUD Act selon le déploiement

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À propos de Aleph Alpha

Aleph Alpha is a Heidelberg-based German sovereign-AI company founded in 2019 to build "specialised LLMs (SLLMs) for European organisations", large language models that operate inside the customer's security perimeter and meet EU regulatory, defence, and public-sector procurement requirements. Co-founders include Samuel Weinbach (Co-Chief Research Officer); offices in Heidelberg (HQ), Berlin, Bayreuth, and Munich. Anchor investors pre-merger include Schwarz Group (Lidl / Kaufland parent, also the operator of STACKIT sovereign cloud), Bosch Ventures, SAP, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi), making Aleph Alpha until April 2026 the most-anchored German-sovereign-AI cap table.

The strategic landscape changed on 24 April 2026, when Toronto-based Cohere announced a merger with Aleph Alpha to form a transatlantic sovereign-AI group valued at approximately US$20B. The deal terms reported by Handelsblatt: Cohere shareholders receive ~90% of the combined entity, Aleph Alpha shareholders ~10% (Cohere's US$7B pre-deal valuation vs Aleph Alpha's US$3B book value); Schwarz Group commits US$600M to Cohere's Series E, the largest single cheque in Cohere's history, to backstop the sovereign-AI offering that will be delivered via STACKIT. The combined company will target regulated sectors (public sector, finance, defence, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare) with Aleph Alpha's German anchor relationships intact through STACKIT delivery. The merger is subject to regulatory approval and had still not closed at the 2026-08-26 re-verify: the imprint names Aleph Alpha GmbH (Speyerer Straße 14, Heidelberg; HRB 732804, Amtsgericht Mannheim; managing directors Reto Spörri and Ilhan Scheer) with no Cohere parent or shareholder, and the site carries no Cohere branding.

For the directory's strict-ownership stance the implication is significant: pre-merger Aleph Alpha was eu_owned (German LLC with German + EU anchor investors); on close the entity becomes a subsidiary of Cohere, a Canadian-headquartered AI company with heavy US-VC funding history (Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, etc.), and Aleph Alpha shareholders will hold only ~10% of the combined group. The listing is therefore moved to eu_hq_us_funded with material CLOUD Act exposure pending the transaction close. The on-premise Pharia platform that runs inside the customer firewall continues to eliminate CLOUD Act exposure for self-hosting buyers regardless of the parent-entity change, and Schwarz Group's STACKIT partnership ensures continued sovereign-EU-cloud delivery for the on-premise-adjacent hybrid use case. Best fit: regulated DACH buyers, defence and public-sector procurement, and any organisation that wants to deploy LLM inference behind the customer firewall on sovereign infrastructure, but procurement-grade buyers signing multi-year commitments should monitor the merger close before committing to long-term contracts.

Carte des sous-traitants · non divulgué

L'éditeur ne publie pas de liste de sous-traitants. La conformité Schrems II et l'exposition au CLOUD Act ne peuvent pas être vérifiées indépendamment sans elle.

Référentiels & certifications · aucune répertoriée

Nous avons vérifié le site de l'éditeur et les registres des organismes de certification. Aucune certification active trouvée à la date du dernier audit (2026-08-26).

Matrice de fonctionnalités

Tableau 1Fonctionnalités de Aleph Alpha

Auto-hébergeable Oui
Accès API Oui
Assistant chat Oui
Modèles open-weight Oui
Fine-tuning Oui
Function calling Oui
RAG Oui

Intégration & accès

REST API Oui
SSO (SAML / OIDC) Oui

Conformité & gouvernance

Audit log Oui
Self-host / on-prem option Oui

Tarifs & paliers

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Documents publics

L'éditeur ne publie pas de DPA public. Sans contrat de sous-traitance accessible publiquement, les petits clients européens ne peuvent pas signer eux-mêmes l'accord : cela est consigné comme absence de DPA publique (voir Notre méthode).
L'éditeur ne publie pas de liste de sous-traitants. La conformité Schrems II et l'exposition au CLOUD Act ne peuvent pas être vérifiées indépendamment sans elle.
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