Cohere For AI has released Aya Expanse, a family of highly performant multilingual models that, according to Cohere, excel across 23 languages and outperform other leading open-weights models. The models, available in 8 and 32 billion parameters, are part of Cohere’s commitment to multilingual research and expanding high-quality coverage of languages in large language models (LLMs). Aya Expanse 32B reportedly sets a new state-of-the-art for multilingual performance, outperforming models more than twice its size, while Aya Expanse 8B outperforms leading open-weights models in its parameter class. Source: VentureBeat