Cohere Releases Tiny Aya AI Models Supporting 70+ Languages for Offline Use on Laptops
Summary
Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a groundbreaking family of open-weight AI models supporting over 70 languages that can run offline on laptops, featuring specialized regional variants for African, South Asian, and Asia Pacific languages with 3.35 billion parameters available for free download.
Key Points
- Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open-weight multilingual AI models supporting over 70 languages that can run offline on everyday devices like laptops
- The models include regional variants optimized for different areas: TinyAya-Earth for African languages, TinyAya-Fire for South Asian languages, and TinyAya-Water for Asia Pacific, West Asia, and Europe
- The 3.35 billion parameter models are now available on HuggingFace, Kaggle, and Ollama platforms for developers to download and deploy locally without requiring internet connectivity