Summary

  • Cohere, a Canadian AI start-up, has developed Command A, its latest generative AI product, which has been designed with enterprise applications in mind.
  • Building on the company’s previous Command-R and Command R+ offerings, Cohere’s new model incorporates retrieval-augmented generation and external tool use to improve efficiency.
  • Key features of the model include support for 23 languages, including significant improvements in Arabic responses, and the generation of verifiably accurate responses.
  • According to the company, Command A matches or outperforms competitors such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 in business and STEM tasks, requires only two GPUs for operation, and is 1.75 times faster than GPT-4o and 2.4 times faster than DeepSeek-V3.
  • Cohere has made the model available on its platform, as well as in open weights for research use only on Hugging Face.

By Carl Franzen

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