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Cohere released its flagship Command A+ model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, a major change from prior non-commercial licensing, as a 218B-A25B MoE that can run on a single B200 GPU at 4-bit precision.

Cohere shifted its flagship Command A+ model to an Apache 2.0 license after previously using non-commercial terms, releasing a 218B-A25B mixture-of-experts model runnable on a single B200 GPU. ✦ AI generated

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Cohere, which is becoming more of a regular entrant into Artifacts lately, released their flagship, Command A+, under Apache 2.0. Previous iterations of the series have been released under a non-commercial license, so this change is more than welcome! Command A+ combines multi-modal, multi-lingual and agentic capabilities as a 218B-A25B MoE, making it usable with a single B200 (when using 4-bit).

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