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February 17, 2026

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 languages

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

TL;DR

  • Cohere launched Tiny Aya, a new family of open-weight multilingual AI models.
  • The models support over 70 languages and can run on devices like laptops without internet access.
  • Tiny Aya models are designed for offline use, ideal for applications like translation in areas with limited connectivity.
  • Regional variants are available for specific language groups, including South Asian, African, and Asia Pacific languages.
  • The models were trained using relatively modest computing resources on a cluster of 64 H100 GPUs.
  • Cohere aims to provide systems that offer stronger linguistic grounding and cultural nuance for diverse communities.
  • The models are accessible on HuggingFace, Kaggle, Ollama, and the Cohere Platform for download and local deployment.
  • Cohere is also releasing training and evaluation datasets and plans to share its training methodology.

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