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Command R 08-2024

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Command R 08-2024 is Cohere's August 2024 update of Command R, a text-only language model with a 128k-token context, released on 30 August 2024 on the Cohere API, Amazon SageMaker and Oracle OCI and on Microsoft Azure from September. Cohere reports higher throughput, lower latency and lower prices, and added Safety Modes in beta; 32-billion-parameter research weights are on Hugging Face. [1] [2] [3] [4] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[2]page date [1]entry date
  • Status Available Primary source[5]Command table, command-r-08-2024 row: Live
  • Revision of Command RCohere calls it the updated Command R and an update of the Command R model. Primary source[1]first paragraphs [5]Command table, command-r-08-2024 row [2] [6]Command R August 2024 Release
  • Change · Efficiency Cohere reports around 50 percent higher throughput and 20 percent lower latency, while needing half the hardware to serve it.Compared with Command R Primary source[1]
  • Change · Safety Adds Safety Modes in beta, letting developers choose a strict or contextual mode or opt out.Compared with Command R Primary source[1]
  • Change · Tool use Cohere reports better decisions about whether and which tool to use, and RAG can now run without citations.Compared with Command R Primary source[1]
  • Change · Other API price lowered to 0.15 USD input and 0.60 USD output per million tokens, from 0.50 and 1.50 USD.Compared with Command R Primary source[1] [7]
  • Input text Primary source[4]Model Details
  • Output text Primary source[4]Model Details
  • Feature Retrieval Primary source[1]Technical Details
  • Feature Tool use Primary source[1]Technical Details
  • Feature MultilingualTrained on 23 languages, evaluated in 10. Primary source[4]Model Summary
  • Open weights YesResearch release under CC-BY-NC 4.0. Primary source[4]
  • Context window 128k tokens Primary source[5]Command table, Context Length [4]Model Summary
  • Parameters 32 billion Primary source[4]Model Summary
  • Access API, cloud partner, Open-weights downloadCohere API, Amazon SageMaker and Oracle OCI at launch; Microsoft Azure from 2024-09-26. Primary source[2]Pricing and Availability [3] [4]

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