Cohere's flagship Command A+ ships under Apache 2.0
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Nick really championed us going Apache 2 for this release and for Cohere Transcribe. Not an obvious decision and one that required many discussions. Like Nick says, I hope the model is more useful and empowering as a result. https://t.co/NlqqEKvTPj
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Cohere's Command A+ release gives developers permission to modify and redistribute the model under Apache 2.0. The company's documentation confirms the license, while the license itself permits derivative works and redistribution subject to requirements such as preserving notices and identifying modifications. That makes the licensing choice consequential for developers who want to adapt and distribute their own versions.
The announcement describes this as a deliberate decision after internal discussion. It adds the licensing rationale to the Command A+ release, rather than reporting a separate model.
- mixture-of-experts — A model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.
- attention — The mechanism that lets a model weigh which earlier words matter for the word it's currently processing — the core operation of a transformer.
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