Aya 23

Name: Aya 23
Author: Cohere

CohereOpen WeightsPending Human Review

Aya 23 is an open-weight multilingual language model family with 8B and 35B decoder-only variants. It concentrates on 23 languages to improve depth of language understanding and instruction following compared with Aya 101’s broader encoder-decoder coverage. The models are built on Cohere’s Command generation with multilingual pretraining and instruction post-training, supporting conversation, summarization, translation, and general text generation. Both sizes have an 8K context. Downloadable weights and a technical report support multilingual research, while the non-commercial license governs weight use. This family page groups the two routine size variants.

2024-05-23

8B and 35B

Dense decoder-only Transformer

CC-BY-NC-4.0 with acceptable-use addendum

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Specifications

Parameters: 8B and 35B
Architecture: Dense decoder-only Transformer
License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 with acceptable-use addendum
Context Window: 8,192 tokens
Type: text
Modalities: text

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Advanced Specifications

Model Family: Aya
API Access: Not Available
Chat Interface: Not Available
Multilingual Support: Yes
Variants: aya-23-8Baya-23-35B

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities: 23-language supportinstruction followingtranslationsummarization
Known Limitations: Downloaded weights are licensed for non-commercial use; commercial deployments require separate terms.Smaller language coverage than Aya 101; multilingual capability varies by task.8K context limits document and conversation length.
Notable Use Cases: multilingual researchlanguage-specific assistantstranslation experiments

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