Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Cohere releases Command A+, its first fully Apache 2.0 licensed open model: a sparse MoE with 218B total/25B active parameters featuring lossless quantization and native citations, targeting agentic workflows.

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<a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/cohere-cracks-lossless-quantization-and-native-citations-with-first-full-apache-2-0-licensed-open-model-command-a"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260520/i56.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260520/p56#a260520p56" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Carl Franzen / <a href="https://venturebeat.com/">VentureBeat</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/cohere-cracks-lossless-quantization-and-native-citations-with-first-full-apache-2-0-licensed-open-model-command-a">Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store &hellip; </p>