Cohere Releases First Apache 2.0 Open AI Model

Canadian AI lab Cohere has unveiled Command A+, a 218-billion-parameter language model built for complex reasoning, multimodal document processing, and agentic workflows. It marks the company's first model released under the permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license. The release reflects Cohere's bet on sovereign AI, enabling enterprises, governments, and developers to run and adapt frontier-grade AI within their own infrastructure. The model is available free on Hugging Face, with notable features including lossless quantization and native citations.