Aya 23

Cohere · 2024 · LLM · Canada

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Cohere
C · CEO & Politics: Aidan Gomez — Canadian centrist / open-source advocate
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: Canada
K · Key Staffers: Aidan Gomez (CEO & Co-Founder, original Transformer co-author), Ivan Zhang (Co-Founder)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Open weights for non-commercial use (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Cohere For AI's Aya 23, open-weight 8B and 35B multilingual models that pair a strong pre-trained model with the Aya instruction collection to serve 23 languages, covering about half the world's population; trading the 101-language breadth of Aya 101 for depth, Cohere reports they beat Aya 101 on the languages they cover as well as Gemma, Mistral and Mixtral on a wide range of tasks. Weights are for non-commercial use (CC BY-NC 4.0).
S · Stock / Status: Private (~$20B combined valuation in Sep 2026 merger agreement with Aleph Alpha)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @cohere
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from Cohere, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Aya 23.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/aya-23.html