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Tiny Aya

CohereOpen WeightsPending Human Review

Tiny Aya is Cohere Labs’ 3.35B multilingual model family designed to make local language generation practical across 70 languages. The family includes a base checkpoint, a globally balanced instruction model, and Earth, Fire, and Water regional variants. These emphasize African and West Asian, South Asian, and European and Asia-Pacific languages respectively. Instruction checkpoints are available through Cohere’s Chat API and downloadable under a non-commercial license. The family’s 8K context and compact size suit offline assistants, translation experiments, and regional-language applications without requiring a large hosted model.

2026-02-17
3.35B
Decoder-only Transformer
CC-BY-NC-4.0

Specifications

Parameters
3.35B
Architecture
Decoder-only Transformer
License
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Context Window
8,192 tokens
Max Output
8,192 tokens
Type
text
Modalities
text

Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
Aya
API Access
Available
Chat Interface
Available
Multilingual Support
Yes
Variants
tiny-aya-basetiny-aya-globaltiny-aya-earthtiny-aya-firetiny-aya-water

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
multilingualtranslationinstruction followingon-device inference
Known Limitations
Open weights have non-commercial licensing restrictionsRegional variants have different language strengthsSmall context and capacity constrain complex tasks
Notable Use Cases
regional-language assistantsoffline translationmultilingual research

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