Cohere is a Canadian AI company headquartered in Toronto. It builds large language models for businesses, including the Command family for text generation and Rerank and Embed models for search, and runs a research lab called Cohere Labs that released the Aya models.
- Founded
- 2019
- Type
- Private company
- Founders
- Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst
- AI lab
- Inference provider
- 17 hosted endpoints
Model family

Aya
Cohere is a Canadian AI company headquartered in Toronto. It builds large language models for businesses, including the Command family for text generation and Rerank and Embed models for search, and runs a research lab called Cohere Labs that released the Aya models.
Latest Aya models
Models in this family
8 catalogued models
8 models · 1–8
| Select models to compare | Model | Released | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Parameters | Type | I/O | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 17, 2026 | 8K | — | — | 3.3B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| February 17, 2026 | 8K | — | — | 3.3B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| February 17, 2026 | 8K | — | — | 3.3B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| February 17, 2026 | 8K | — | — | 3.3B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| March 4, 2025 | 16K | — | — | 32B | Text | text, image → text | Open weights | ||
| March 4, 2025 | 16K | — | — | 8B | Text | text, image → text | Open weights | ||
| October 24, 2024 | 128K | — | — | 32B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| October 24, 2024 | 8K | — | — | 8B | Text | text → text | Open weights |