🎙 EP 369: Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri & Anthropic Uses AI Interviewer to Study Adoption

AI Fire Daily · Oct 5, 2026 · 14m · transcript

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European AI lab Aleph Alpha introduced Kolibri, an open-weight reasoning Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model built for regulated enterprise environments, activating just 3.46B parameters per token across a 1M-token context window. Meanwhile, Anthropic expanded its conversational AI research initiative, utilizing "Anthropic Interviewer" to conduct voice-led qualitative studies on how over 1,250 professionals navigate productivity, dependence, and job security alongside AI.

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