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 with the updated Command R on the Cohere API, Amazon SageMaker and Oracle OCI, and on Microsoft Azure from September. Cohere reports higher throughput and lower latency on the same hardware; research weights have 104 billion parameters. [1] [2] [3] [4] Primary source

Timeline of Command R+ 08-2024 →

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  • Released Primary source[2]page date [1]entry date
  • Status Available Primary source[5]Command table, command-r-plus-08-2024 row: Live
  • Revision of Command R+Cohere calls it the updated Command R+ and an update of the Command R+ model. Primary source[1]first paragraphs [5]Command table, command-r-plus-08-2024 row [2] [6]Command R+ August 2024 Release
  • Change · Efficiency Cohere reports roughly 50 percent higher throughput and 25 percent lower latency on the same hardware footprint.Compared with Command R+ Primary source[1]
  • Change · Safety Adds Safety Modes in beta, with a strict or a contextual mode.Compared with Command R+ Primary source[1]
  • Change · Tool use Cohere reports better tool selection and instruction following in the preamble, and citations in RAG can be turned off.Compared with Command R+ Primary source[1]
  • Change · Other API price lowered to 2.50 USD input and 10.00 USD output per million tokens, from 3.00 and 15.00 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 useMulti-step tool use. Primary source[1]Technical Details [4]Model Summary
  • Feature MultilingualTrained on 23 languages, evaluated in 10. Primary source[4]Model Summary
  • Open weights YesOpen weights research 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 104 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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