Enterprise AI company Cohere has unveiled a multilingual AI model, Tiny Aya, TechCrunch reported on Feb. 17 local time.
Tiny Aya was released as an open-weight model and supports more than 70 languages. It can run on local devices such as laptops without an internet connection.
The model includes South Asian languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu and Marathi. It is based on 3.35 billion parameters.
Cohere also released regional models, including Tiny Aya-Global for broad language coverage, Tiny Aya-Earth for African languages, Tiny Aya-Fire focused on South Asian languages, and Tiny Aya-Water supporting Asia-Pacific, West Asian and European languages.
Cohere stressed that Tiny Aya was trained on a 64-unit Nvidia H100 GPU cluster and delivers strong performance with relatively limited computing resources. It cited offline translation that can be used in regions with unstable internet connections as a strength.
The Tiny Aya model is currently available for download on the AI model-sharing platform Hugging Face and on the Cohere platform. Cohere plans to release training and evaluation datasets and publish a technical report.
Chi-gyu Hwang
delight@d-today.co.kr