@article{asovereignopensourcefoundationmodelforge,
  title = {A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English},
  author = {The Soofi-Team and  : and Benedikt Droste and David Fitzek and Ruben Härle and Lukas Helff and Maximilian Idahl and Alex Jude and Abbas Goher Khan and Maurice Kraus and Timm Ruland and Richard Rutmann and Sebastian Sztwiertnia and Markus Frey and Daniil Gurgurov and Jan Pfister and Tom Röhr and Sebastian von Rohrscheidt and Jörg Bienert and Nicolas Flores-Herr and Simon Gottschalk and Andreas Hotho and Kristian Kersting and Joachim Köhler and Alexander Löser and Wolfgang Nejdl and Simon Ostermann and Jan Plogsties and Patrick Putzky and Mehdi Ali and Michael Fromm and Max Lübbering},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2607.09424},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09424},
}