Command R7B Arabic

Name: Command R7B Arabic
Author: Cohere

CohereOpen WeightsPending Human Review

Command R7B Arabic is a distinct language specialization for Modern Standard Arabic and English, emphasizing cultural understanding, instruction adherence, length control, and responses in the requested language. Its model card counts approximately 8B total parameters, comprising 7B Transformer parameters and 1B embedding parameters. The optimized autoregressive architecture combines local and global attention and supports a 128K context. Conversational and concise instruction modes use different preambles. It is specifically trained for citation-bearing retrieval generation in Arabic and English. Research weights and a hosted demonstration are available under Cohere’s non-commercial weight terms.

2025-02-27

Approximately 8B total: 7B Transformer and 1B embedding

Dense decoder-only Transformer with local and global attention

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

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Specifications

Parameters: Approximately 8B total: 7B Transformer and 1B embedding
Architecture: Dense decoder-only Transformer with local and global attention
License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 with acceptable-use addendum
Context Window: 128,000 tokens
Type: text
Modalities: text

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Advanced Specifications

Model Family: Command
API Access: Available
Chat Interface: Available
Multilingual Support: Yes
Variants: c4ai-command-r7b-arabic-02-2025

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities: Arabic languageEnglish languageinstruction followingretrieval augmented generationcitations
Known Limitations: Downloaded weights are licensed for non-commercial use; commercial deployments require separate terms.Grounded answers depend on supplied documents and can still contain unsupported statements.Evaluation targets Modern Standard Arabic and English; other language coverage is not equivalent.
Notable Use Cases: Arabic document assistantsArabic-English researchculturally aware customer support

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