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The German Commons - 154 Billion Tokens of Openly Licensed Text for GermanLanguage Models

What If German AI Could Learn From Completely Open Text?

Imagine a German chatbot that’s trained only on text you can share without legal worries.
That’s the promise of the German Commons, a brand‑new library of openly licensed German writing.
It gathers more than 154 billion words from books, news, science papers, legal documents and everyday web pages—everything cleared under licenses like CC‑BY‑SA 4.
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Think of it as a massive public library where every book is free to copy and remix; now AI researchers can walk in, pick any shelf, and teach their models without fearing copyright claims.
This flood of clean, legal data means the next generation of German language models can be truly open, transparent, and safe for everyone to use and improve.

With the German Commons, the biggest roadblock for German AI—lack of open training material—vanishes, opening the door for more innovative apps, better privacy, and a vibrant community of creators.
The future of German AI is now open for all of us to explore.
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