German AI company Aleph Alpha has launched its new foundation model family that includes Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control and Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control-aligned models, showcasing a significant leap from Aleph Alpha’s previous Luminous model family. 

The models are now publicly available under the Open Aleph License, allowing non-commercial research and educational use.

The company states that Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control is engineered to deliver concise, length-controlled responses that match the performance of leading open-source models in the 7B to 8B parameter range. Further, it has been trained on a multilingual base corpus and is culturally and linguistically optimized for German, French, and Spanish.

In addition, Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control is trained on carefully curated data in compliance with applicable EU and national regulations, including copyright and data privacy laws.

Notably, with improved token efficiency, Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control excels in domain-specific applications, particularly in the automotive and engineering industries. It can also be aligned to user preferences, making it suitable for critical applications without the risk of shutdown behavior.