European solution: Aleph Alpha offers Pharia AI via Schwarz Digits

Aleph Alpha and Schwarz Digits are cooperating to offer PhariaAI-as-a-Service. This means that PhariaAI will be provided via the Schwarz Digits Cloud. In a press release, the two companies from Germany write: “Through this collaboration, organizations can quickly implement and scale generative AI solutions based on Aleph Alpha’s PhariaAI – with complete control over data, models, and deployment options.” With its services, Aleph Alpha wants to create the opportunity to reduce dependence on US companies.

Stackit is the Schwarz Group’s cloud infrastructure. According to Aleph Alpha, it is highly secure and GDPR-compliant. The press release also states that there is an increasing demand from companies and public institutions to use AI solutions without “compromising on data sovereignty and regulatory compliance”.

New model architecture for more cost-effective AI applications

PhariaAI is a kind of operating system for AI applications that can be used to access various open-source AI models and, of course, customize them. Customers can train and adapt models themselves via Stackit – as required. Everything is hosted entirely on a European infrastructure.

Another new feature is that Aleph Alpha integrates its own tokenizer-free model architecture into PhariaAI. It can be applied to open-source models. According to Aleph Alpha, this “T-free variant of a Llama model for German-language administrative tasks shows significant performance gains compared to significantly larger and more cost-intensive models.”

Aleph Alpha recently acquired the Karlsruhe-based company Thingsthinking. An AI start-up whose software specializes in understanding the meaning of a text. According to Thingsthinking, it already has customers from the automotive industry, financial service providers and insurance companies. PhariaAI will then be offered to them automatically.

(emw)