Cohere releases North Small Translate with restricted open weights
Cohere released North Small Translate, a 218-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts translation model with 25 billion active parameters, a 16K context window and support for more than 50 languages and locale variants. It is available through a free API tier and as FP8 weights.
Why it matters: Teams can compare hosted and self-managed translation using the same named model, but the non-commercial weight license makes evaluation access materially different from production permission.