# 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

## The record

- Provider: Cohere
- Model id: `c4ai-aya-expanse-8b`
- Cause of death: Retired
- Notice given: 2026-04-04

## Sources

- https://docs.cohere.com/docs/deprecations
- https://cohere.com/blog/aya-expanse-connecting-our-world
- https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/aya-expanse-8b

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