How did Aleph Alpha Kolibri do on X?
Aleph Alpha posted the Kolibri launch from @Aleph__Alpha on Oct 3, 2026. The post has 2,694,557 views, 9,795 likes, 1,010 reposts, 490 quotes and 434 replies, an engagement rate of 0.44%. It ranks #282 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Now the weights are yours. Run it on your own hardware, under Apache 2.0.
- 15xthe median launch175K median views
- #282of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 105xits own following25,557 followers
- Views
- 2.7M
- Likes
- 9.8K
- Reposts
- 1K
- Quotes
- 490
- Replies
- 434
- Bookmarks
- 5.7K
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 2.7M views would cost $269K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $67K.
The post reached about 105 views for every follower of @Aleph__Alpha.
What launched?
Aleph Alpha released the weights of Kolibri, a 78B parameter model with 3.46B active and up to 1M tokens of context, under Apache 2.0.
How does it compare with other launches?
Aleph Alpha Kolibri has more views than 90% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 15x the median launch's 175K views.
- Aleph Alpha Kolibri2.7M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Aleph Alpha Kolibri | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 2.7M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.44% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 105 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 490 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 21.2 | 14.2 |
Other Aleph Alpha launches we track: Aleph Alpha TFree-HAT 7B (75.4K views). All 2 Aleph Alpha launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 264.5K | 10x | #176 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 27x | #80 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 14x | #208 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 15x | #282 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 25.6K followers, the post reached 105 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 34 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 80 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 490 quote posts, 1.8 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here.". The post runs 34 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Saturday (UTC). Saturday launches have a median of 148.9K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Aleph Alpha?
- In its own words on X: "Our Specialized Sovereign Large Language Model for Mission Critical Environments is here" Aleph Alpha posted the Kolibri launch from @Aleph__Alpha on Oct 3, 2026.
- How many views did Aleph Alpha Kolibri get on X?
- 2,694,557 views. Aleph Alpha posted it from @Aleph__Alpha on Oct 3, 2026, and the post has 9,795 likes, 1,010 reposts, 490 quotes, 434 replies and 5,712 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Aleph Alpha Kolibri a big launch on X?
- It ranks #282 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 90% of them and 15x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.44%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 2.7M views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 2.7M views would cost $269K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $67K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/aleph-alpha-kolibri, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.