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# Announcing Cohere's Command A Vision Model

> This announcement covers the release of Command A Vision, Cohere's first model able to understand and interpret image inputs.

We're excited to announce the release of **Command A Vision**, Cohere's first commercial model capable of understanding and interpreting visual data alongside text. This addition to our Command family brings enterprise-grade vision capabilities to your applications with the same familiar Command API interface.

## Key Features

### Multimodal Capabilities

* **Text + Image Processing**: Combine text prompts with image inputs
* **Enterprise-Focused Use Cases**: Optimized for business applications like document analysis, chart interpretation, and OCR
* **Multiple Languages**: Officially supports English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Spanish

### Technical Specifications

* **Model Name**: `command-a-vision-07-2025`
* **Context Length**: 128K tokens
* **Maximum Output**: 8K tokens
* **Image Support**: Up to 20 images per request (or 20MB total)
* **API Endpoint**: Chat API

## What You Can Do

Command A Vision excels in enterprise use cases including:

* **📊 Chart & Graph Analysis**: Extract insights from complex visualizations
* **📋 Table Understanding**: Parse and interpret data tables within images
* **📄 Document OCR**: Optical character recognition with natural language processing
* **🌐 Image Processing for Multiple Languages**: Handle text in images across multiple languages
* **🔍 Scene Analysis**: Identify and describe objects within images

## 💻 Getting Started

The API structure is identical to our existing Command models, making integration straightforward:

```python
import cohere

co = cohere.Client("your-api-key")

response = co.chat(
    model="command-a-vision-07-2025",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {
                    "type": "text",
                    "text": "Analyze this chart and extract the key data points",
                },
                {
                    "type": "image_url",
                    "image_url": {"url": "your-image-url"},
                },
            ],
        }
    ],
)
```

There's much more to be said about working with images, various limitations, and best practices, which you can find in our dedicated [Command A Vision](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/command-a-vision) and [Image Inputs](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/image-inputs) documents.