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Developers and researchers who need lightweight, multilingual AI models that run locally and enable text generation and understanding across many languages
About Tiny Aya
Tiny Aya is a family of open-weight multilingual language models from Cohere Labs designed to deliver powerful, adaptable AI that can run efficiently on local devices, including phones and laptops, without requiring constant cloud connectivity. It focuses on enabling high-quality text understanding and generation across more than 70 languages, including many lower-resource languages that are often underserved by mainstream models. Built with lightweight architectures around 3.35 billion parameters, Tiny Aya is optimized for balanced multilingual representation and realistic compute constraints, making it suitable for edge deployment and offline use. The models support downstream adaptation and instruction tuning, allowing developers to customize behavior for specific applications while maintaining strong cross-lingual performance.
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Free Version available.
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Cohere AI
Founded: 2019
Canada
cohere.com/blog/cohere-labs-tiny-aya
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