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Cohere releases North Small Translate for cost-effective 50-language translation

Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight machine translation model built on the Command A Plus architecture. This model, which has 25 billion active parameters out of a total of 218 billion, is designed for cost-effective translation across 50 languages. It achieves top performance without requiring expensive inference computations, and also supports related tasks like post-editing and quality estimation. AI

IMPACT This release offers a cost-effective, high-performance translation model that could accelerate adoption in multilingual applications.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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Cohere releases North Small Translate for cost-effective 50-language translation

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Tom Kocmi, Alexandre B\'erard, Phil Blunsom, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shaun Cassini, Nicholas Frosst, Ona de Gibert, Aidan Gomez, Nithya Govindarajan, Shun Kiyono, Olivia Lasche, Lawrence Rogers, Kelly Marchisio, Nikita Moghe, Yash More, Camila Moran-Hidalgo,… ·

    North Small Translate: Advanced Cost-Effective Translation (Cohere CAT+)

    arXiv:2609.13916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present North Small Translate, an open-weight, LLM-based machine translation (MT) model with instruction-following capabilities built on the same foundation as Cohere's Command A Plus, a mixture-of-experts architecture with 25 bi…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · sipirtu ·

    Cohere released North Small Translate, an open-weight mixture-of-experts machine translation model for 50 languages. Source: The New Stack https:// thenewstack.

    Cohere released North Small Translate, an open-weight mixture-of-experts machine translation model for 50 languages. Source: The New Stack https:// thenewstack.io/cohere-north-tr anslate-sovereignty/ # AI # Cohere