North Small Translate 1.0

Released on September 10, 2026

Release Summary

Cohere's first North-family translation model is a 218B-total, 25B-active open MoE for 50+ languages. It scores 83.60 on WMT26 across all languages, or 84.36 with an agentic multi-pass workflow, ahead of DeepL NextGen (81.37), Gemma 4 31B (79.46), Command A+ (76.53), GLM 5.2 FP8 (76.50), and Google Translate (68.20). 16K input and 16K output. CC BY-NC 4.0 weights on Hugging Face; commercial access through Model Vault and RWS Language Weaver.

Timeline

September 10, 2026

North Small Translate released

Cohere publishes North-Small-Translate-1.0 weights on Hugging Face under CC BY-NC 4.0 and opens commercial paths through Model Vault and RWS.