A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English

@article{pub17626,
    author = {



Droste, Benedikt
 and 



Fitzek, David
 and 



Härle, Ruben
 and 



Helff, Lukas Henrik
 and 



Idahl, Maximilian
 and 



Jude, Alex
 and 



Khan, Abbas Goher
 and 



Kraus, Maurice
 and 



Ruland, Timm
 and 



Rutmann, Richard
 and 



Sztwiertnia, Sebastian
 and 



Frey, Markus
 and 



Gurgurov, Daniil
 and 



Pfister, Jan
 and 



Röhr, Tom
 and 



Rohrscheidt, Sebastian von
 and 



Bienert, Jörg
 and 



Flores-Herr, Nicolas
 and 



Gottschalk, Simon
 and 



Hotho, Andreas
 and 



Kersting, Kristian
 and 



Köhler, Joachim
 and 



Löser, Alexander
 and 



Nejdl, Wolfgang
 and 



Ostermann, Simon
 and 



Plogsties, Jan
 and 



Plüster, Björn
 and 



Putzky, Patrick
 and 



Vali, Mehdi
 and 



Fromm, Michael
 and 



Lübbering, Max
},
    title = {A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English},
    year = {2026},
    volume = {abs/2607.09424},
    pages = {1--61},
    journal = {Computing Research Repository eprint Journal (CoRR)},
    publisher = {arXiv}
}