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Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress research paper by Cohere, 2024

Cohere · May 23, 2024 · Inference and efficiency · 34 upvotes 2 years ago

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Aya 23 is a powerful multilingual language model for 23 languages, outperforming previous models on a wide range of tasks.

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Authors
Viraat Aryabumi, John Dang, Dwarak Talupuru and 14 more
arXiv
2405.15032 · PDF
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34 · Hugging Face
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