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Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English

Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE. Soofi Consortium just open-sourced a 30B model optimized for German and English—activating only 3.2B parameters at inference.

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Why it matters

Open model releases with novel architectures (Mamba-Transformer hybrid, MoE efficiency) matter to builders choosing inference stacks. German/English focus signals growing non-English frontier for foundation models.

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  1. Model: Soofi S 30B-A3B

  2. Architecture: Hybrid Mamba-Transformer with Mixture of Experts (MoE)

  3. Total parameters: 31.6B

  4. Active parameters at inference: 3.2B

  5. Languages: German and English

  6. Release status: Open-source

  7. Released: July 15, 2026

  8. License: Open-source

  9. Published: July 15, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: Soofi S 30B-A3B is an open Mamba-Transformer MoE model activating 3.2B of 31.6B parameters for German and English
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