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Introducing Aya
A global initiative led by Cohere For AI involving over 3,000 independent researchers across 119 countries. Aya is a state-of-art model and dataset, pushing the boundaries of multilingual AI for 101 languages through open science.
The word Aya is derived from the Twi language meaning “fern” - a symbol of endurance and resourcefulness. Aya embodies our dedication to advancing multilingual AI.
3
Models
513M
Total Release Dataset Size
3K
Independent Researchers
56
Language Ambassadors
119
Countries
204K
Original Human Annotations
101
Languages
31K
Discord Messages
The Aya Models
State of the Art, Accessible Research LLM
Aya 23 - 8B
State of the Art Research LLM
Aya 23 - 35B
Massively Multilingual Research LLM
Aya 101
Multilingual AI Research
Aya provides AI researchers a groundbreaking foundation to accelerate multilingual AI progress. Aya is one of the largest open science endeavors in machine learning to date – redefining the research landscape by collaborating with independent researchers from across the globe. The result is a fully open-sourced dataset and model.
A Step Forward For Multilingual Generative AI
Human evaluation of the Aya model shows consistent gains
The Aya model follows instructions and generates responses of significantly higher quality than mT0x. Based on human evaluations from professional annotators who compared model responses to instructions given in multiple languages, the Aya model is preferred 77% of the time on average.
Aya Press
VentureBeat
Cohere launches open weights AI model Aya 23 with support for 23 languages
AI Business
"Build Multilingual AI Solutions with Cohere’s New Aya Model"
siliconANGLE
"Cohere for AI unveils Aya, a multilingual open-source AI in 101 languages"
Axios
"New AI polyglot launched to help fill massive language gap in field"
The Washington Post
"Helping the second class citizens of the AI boom"
The Globe and Mail
"AI falls short in many languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that"
Aya at a Glance
Learn more about the journey of Aya, from our collaborators, to key breakthroughs & the responsible use of our open source model
What’s next?
Join Expedition Aya
Announcing our 6-week, global build challenge to expand the world AI sees.
Aya 23 Blog
Learn about our latest 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release
Contribute to Aya
Represent your language for inclusion in future versions of Aya.
Cohere For AI
Aya is led by Cohere For AI, a non-profit research lab that seeks to solve complex ML problems. We support fundamental research and are focused on creating more points of entry into ML research.