Cohere Unveils ‘Tiny Aya’ Model Family Supporting Over 70 Languages

Enterprise AI company Cohere has unveiled its new multilingual model family “Tiny Aya.” The models were announced on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. They are open-weight, meaning the core code is open and can be used and modified by anyone. They can run on ordinary devices such as laptops without internet connectivity, expanding offline usability.

Cohere Labs developed the models. In addition to supporting over 70 languages, they include strong capabilities in South Asian languages such as Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi. The base model contains 3.35 billion parameters, indicating its size and complexity.

As part of the Tiny Aya family, a version called “TinyAya-Global” has also been introduced, fine-tuned to better follow user instructions. Three additional regional variants are available: “TinyAya-Earth” (African languages), “TinyAya-Fire” (South Asian languages), and “TinyAya-Water” (Asia-Pacific, West Asian, and European languages). According to the company, this approach enables each model to better capture regional linguistic and cultural nuances while maintaining multilingual capability.

Cohere stated that the models were trained using relatively limited computing resources—on a single cluster with 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs. The software has been optimized for on-device use, requiring less computing power compared to similar models. This will enable researchers and developers to use them in applications including offline translation, particularly in linguistically diverse countries where internet connectivity is not always reliable.

The models are available on Hugging Face and Cohere’s platform. Developers can download them from Hugging Face, Kaggle, and Ollama for local deployment. Training and evaluation datasets are also being released on Hugging Face, and a technical report detailing the training methodology is expected soon.

Chief Executive Officer Aidan Gomez said last year that the company plans to go public soon. Media reports state that by the end of 2025, the company’s annual recurring revenue reached $240 million, maintaining 50 percent quarter-over-quarter growth throughout the year.