Cohere Labs Launches Tiny Aya AI Model Supporting 70+ Languages on Mobile Phones
Summary
Cohere Labs releases Tiny Aya, a groundbreaking 3.35-billion parameter AI model that supports over 70 languages and runs directly on mobile phones, featuring specialized regional variants for different global areas while achieving state-of-the-art multilingual performance at unprecedented efficiency levels.
Key Points
- Cohere Labs releases Tiny Aya, a 3.35B-parameter multilingual AI model that supports 70+ languages and runs locally on consumer hardware including mobile phones
- The model family includes TinyAya-Global for balanced multilingual performance and three specialized regional variants (Earth, Fire, Water) optimized for Africa/West Asia, South Asia, and Asia-Pacific regions respectively
- Tiny Aya achieves state-of-the-art performance for its scale in translation and multilingual understanding while maintaining efficiency through improved tokenization and training strategies developed on a single 64 GPU cluster