Tiny Aya Bridging Scale And Multilingual Depth 2026 02 17

Tiny Aya offers multilingual AI through a compact model family with both broad and regional language priorities. Cohere’s publisher abstract describes a 3.35-billion-parameter model trained on 70 languages, followed by additional training tailored to regional language groups. The release includes a foundation model, a globally balanced instruction-following version and three regional variants. That gives developers a concrete choice between broad language coverage and regional specialization within the same family. The abstract does not establish which variant performs best for a particular language or application.