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Cohere open-sources its strongest model yet
Canadian AI company Cohere has released its newest language model, Command A+, as an open-source project. This latest iteration boasts 218 billion parameters with 25 billion active and is designed for enterprise applications such as automated tasks, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual document processing.
- Command A+ supports 48 different languages and can handle both text and image data.
- The model has a context window of 128,000 tokens, allowing for longer sequences to be processed without breaks in the conversation or task flow.
- Cohere’s Command A+ outperformed its predecessor on key benchmarks. For instance, it scored an impressive 85 percent on agent benchmark τ²-Bench Telecom and improved from a 37 to 25 percent score on the coding test Terminal-Bench Hard.
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### Takeaways
– Cohere has released its most powerful language model as open-source, Command A+, with 218 billion parameters.
– The model excels in enterprise workflows like automated tasks and multilingual document processing.
– It supports a wide range of languages (48 total) and features a large context window for handling complex queries or sequences.
– Performance improvements have been noted across key benchmarks, indicating its effectiveness in various applications.
Originally published at the-decoder.com. Curated by AI Maestro.
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