October 24, 2024: Cohere Unveils Aya Expanse Multilingual AI Models - Cohere Inc. has launched Aya Expanse, a new family of high-performance multilingual AI models with 8 and 32 billion parameters, covering 23 languages. Released with open weights on Kaggle and Hugging Face, these models outperform competitors like Googles Gemma 2 and Metas Llama-3.1. Innovations such as synthetic data, human feedback, and model merging enhance performance and safety, marking a significant milestone in multilingual AI research. Cohere continues its collaborative efforts to expand multilingual data access and resources, bridging global language gaps through technology.