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Aya Expanse 8B

2024–2026 · Lived 1 year, 5 months

Twenty-three languages from a research group whose whole purpose was the languages the field kept skipping, trained on data that thousands of volunteers had assembled by hand. Its weights were open but non-commercial, so it lived where research lives and nowhere else. On Cohere's deprecation page its announcement and its retirement carry the same date.