VentureBeat October 24, 2024
Cohere today released two new open-weight models in its Aya project to close the language gap in foundation models.
Aya Expanse 8B and 35B, now available on Hugging Face, expands performance advancements in 23 languages. Cohere said in a blog post the 8B parameter model “makes breakthroughs more accessible to researchers worldwide,” while the 32B parameter model provides state-of-the-art multilingual capabilities.
The Aya project seeks to expand access to foundation models in more global languages than English. Cohere for AI, the company’s research arm, launched the Aya initiative last year. In February, it released the Aya 101 large language model (LLM), a 13-billion-parameter model covering 101 languages. Cohere for AI also released the Aya dataset to help expand...