German AI startup can compete with ChatGPT

There are many clichés about the US or China leading the way in tech trends and Europe falling behind. In artificial intelligence in particular, Open AI and Microsoft have dominated the headlines and ChatGPT has grown to 100 million users in just two months - faster than any other software product before. German startup Aleph Alpha can easily keep up withcompetitors ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLM) like Meta AI.

Aleph Alpha 's platform uses the latest technologies in artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing. It is capable of processing and analyzing large amounts of data quickly and provides customers with valuable insights into their business processes.

Jonas Andrulis and Samuel Weinbach founded the startup Aleph Alpha in Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) in 2019. The company's central product is an AI language model called Luminous.

In a test, several AI language models from different vendors were subjected to a standardized performance comparison (benchmark test) called "Evaluation Harness," which is provided by the decentralized developer collective Eleuther AI. In this scientific comparison, the language models must complete text classification, text evaluation, and text generation tasks, as well as content rendering questions. Although Luminous, with 70 billion parameters, has significantly fewer than GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, it was still able to keep up with ChatGPT. The upcoming release of GPT-4 will be interesting, as its parameters are said to be much larger.

Aleph Alpha's founders believe that their platform can give companies a competitive edge by providing them with a better basis for decision-making. According to Aleph Alpha, the platform offers companies the ability to respond quickly and effectively to changes in the market.

However, competition in the industry is fierce. Companies such as Open AI and Google have been developing artificial intelligence for years. Aleph Alpha is reportedly confident that they can compete in the market. In doing so, the company is taking an important step in technical sovereignty in Europe. Nevertheless, competitors from the U.S. and China have quite a bit ahead of them in terms of turning the technology into concrete applications. This is because in Europe, and especially in Germany, we do not have the same start-up culture and venture capital as in the United States, for example. In addition, the development of artificial intelligence is being slowed down in Europe in particular, where AI companies are to be more strongly regulated by the EU AI Act. A competitor behind which a global corporation stands always has it much easier here.

The company has already won a number of customers. These include ZETIS (Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector), the IT system house of the German Armed Forces BWI and the media house IPPEN. The company works closely with their customers to customize the platform to their specific needs.

Overall, Aleph Alpha is a promising startup in the artificial intelligence space and has the potential to become a major player in the industry. The platform is powerful and provides customers with valuable insights into their data. With an experienced team and a growing customer base, the future looks promising for Aleph Alpha.