Papersby GlyphAya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier research paper by Cohere, 2024
Cohere · Alignment and safety · Dec 5, 2024 · 153 citations · 9 upvotes
What it shows
A new family of 8B and 32B parameter multilingual language models, Aya Expanse, achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple languages and outperforms larger models in evaluations.
By John Dang, Shivalika Singh, Daniel D'souza and 42 more · arXiv 2412.04261 · PDF
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About this paper
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- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 153, 23 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 9 · Hugging Face
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- Cohere · on Companies · on Acquisitions · on Releases
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