https://localfirstai.eu/tags/kolibri/Recent content in Kolibri on Local First AIHugoen-usMon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://localfirstai.eu/posts/2026-10-05-our-own-gate-said-no/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://localfirstai.eu/posts/2026-10-05-our-own-gate-said-no/Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78-billion-parameter English–German mixture-of-experts model, on 3 October, when no local runtime supported it. We wrote an MLX port, a separate numpy reference to check it against, and a pre-registered gate that had to pass before any score counted. It failed. By a rule we wrote before the run, this post has no Kolibri scores. It has what failed and what we found when we took the failure apart, including a batched mlx-lm expert layer that returned wrong numbers in a probe on our M5 Max. It also has what we'd do differently.