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Command R7B Arabic

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Command R7B Arabic is a version of Cohere's Command R7B optimised for Modern Standard Arabic and English and aimed at enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa, released on the Cohere platform and as open weights on Hugging Face. It has a 128K-token context window and about 8 billion parameters. [1] [2] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[1]date line; Availability [3]February 27, 2025
  • Status AvailableOpen weights still downloadable from Cohere Labs on Hugging Face. The API id command-r7b-arabic-02-2025 linked from the announcement does not appear on Cohere's models overview or deprecations page as of 2026-10-01, so its API status is not documented. Primary source[2]
  • Variant of Command R7BCohere presents it as a new version of its lightweight Command R7B model with advanced Arabic capabilities. Primary source[1]first paragraph
  • Change · Languages Cohere says it improves on Command R7B in all Arabic language dimensions, with no regression in the languages Command R7B already supported.Compared with Command R7B Primary source[1]
  • Input text Primary source[2]Model Details: Input
  • Output text Primary source[2]Model Details: Output
  • Feature RetrievalRetrieval-augmented generation with in-line citations, trained for Arabic and English. Primary source[2]Multilingual RAG Capabilities [3]Multilingual RAG Capabilities
  • Feature Tool useThe announcement mentions using external tools such as search engines, APIs and vector databases. Primary source[1]Multilingual
  • Open weights YesResearch release under CC-BY-NC with Cohere Labs' Acceptable Use Policy; download is gated behind accepting the conditions. Primary source[1]Availability [2]
  • Context window 128K tokens Primary source[2]Context length [1]second paragraph [3]
  • Parameters c. ~8 billion parameters (7 billion transformer parameters + 1 billion embedding parameters)The model card summary calls it a 7 billion parameter model; its Model Size line and the release notes give about 8 billion in total. Primary source[2]Model Size [3]first paragraph
  • Access API, Open-weights downloadAt release: Cohere platform (the announcement links the playground with model command-r7b-arabic-02-2025) and Hugging Face; the announcement also mentions Ollama. Primary source[1]Availability

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