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Aya 101

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Aya 101 is a multilingual language model from Cohere For AI, Cohere's non-profit research lab, released on 13 February 2024 as open weights under Apache 2.0 and covering 101 languages. The 13-billion-parameter model uses the mT5-XXL architecture and came with the Aya Collection and Aya Dataset; Cohere says over 3,000 researchers from 119 countries took part in the project. [1] [2] [3] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[1]page date
  • Status AvailableOpen weights downloadable from Cohere Labs on Hugging Face; not offered as a hosted API model on the current models overview. Primary source[2]
      • Feature MultilingualFollows instructions in 101 languages. Primary source[1] [2]Model Summary [3]abstract
      • Open weights YesReleased under Apache 2.0, together with the Aya datasets. Primary source[1]How to Get Involved [2]
      • Parameters 13 billion Primary source[2]Model Summary
      • Access Open-weights downloadThe launch post also invited people to try the model in the Cohere Playground. Primary source[1]How to Get Involved [2]

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