Cohere Labs Releases Tiny Aya, a Family of Small Models Covering 70+ Languages
Cohere_Labs · x · 2026-10-06
Cohere Labs unveiled Tiny Aya at COLM 2026 — a family of efficient multilingual small models supporting 70+ languages, including many lower-resourced ones. It combines a shared multilingual foundation with regionally specialized variants for stronger performance across diverse linguistic communities.
- Paper and technical report are available
- Try it on their Hugging Face Space
- Open weights for building your own applications
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