Announcing Cohere's North Small Translate
We’re pleased to announce the release of North Small Translate, an open-weights mixture-of-experts model purpose-built for machine translation across more than 50 languages.
North Small Translate is designed to give researchers, developers, and enterprises flexible ways to evaluate and deploy machine translation while retaining control over their data and infrastructure.
Key features
- Purpose-built translation: Optimized for machine translation across more than 50 languages and locale variants.
- Efficient MoE architecture: 218 billion total parameters with 25 billion active parameters.
- Flexible deployment: Available through the free-tier Chat V2 API, as FP8 open weights for non-commercial use, and through Model Vault with a commercial license.
- Private deployment: Suggested deployment hardware is two H100 GPUs or one B200 GPU.
Technical details
- Model name:
north-small-translate-1-0 - Context length: 16K
- License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
- Open-weights format: FP8
Availability
North Small Translate is available on the free tier through the Chat V2 API. The FP8 weights are available on Hugging Face for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
For production use, enterprises can purchase a commercial license and deploy North Small Translate through Model Vault.
For supported languages, use cases, and an API example, see the model documentation.