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Cohere's Aya 23: Open Multilingual Models Challenge Closed APIs
Cohere released Aya 23, an open-weight family of multilingual models in 8B and 35B sizes, covering 23 languages. The models outperform Gemma and Mistral on multilingual benchmarks while the 8B version runs on consumer hardware. They are available under a CC-BY-NC license on Hugging Face.
Meridian48 take
Aya 23's focus on depth over breadth is a smart trade-off, but the non-commercial license limits its appeal for startups building revenue-generating products.
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