# Aya Expanse 8B

> 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.

2024-10-24 — 2026-04-04 · lived 1 year, 5 months

This URL is the guided walk — the 3D cemetery, standing at this grave. The written record is at [Aya Expanse 8B's epitaph](https://models.rip/c4ai-aya-expanse-8b/epitaph).

## Elsewhere

- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)
- [The dataset](https://models.rip/graveyard.json)