Cohere

Aya Expanse

Maker
Cohere
Origin
Canada
Released
Oct 2024

Strengths & weaknesses

  • Purpose-built for broad multilingual coverage across dozens of languages, including many under-served ones
  • Open-weight, useful for research and localization-heavy applications
  • Not intended to compete with frontier models on English-centric reasoning
  • Smaller production track record than Cohere's commercial Command line

Evaluation

Awaiting evaluation
  • Reasoningw25
  • Accuracyw20
  • Long contextw15
  • Speedw10
  • Cost efficiencyw15
  • Deployabilityw15

w = weight, each criterion’s share of the overall score. How scoring works

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