Recognizing that Europe risked total technological vassalage to US and Chinese artificial intelligence monopolies, Jonas Andrulis left Apple's special projects division to found Aleph Alpha in 2019.
His research team developed Luminous, one of the world's most advanced multi-modal large language models built with strict European data sovereignty, zero-hallucination explainability, and enterprise compliance, raising over €500M from Bosch, SAP, and Schwarz Group.