Trending Now - Cohere Launches Command A+: a Groundbreaking Open Model With Native Citations

WHO:

Techmeme - Cohere, a Canadian AI lab, co-founded by Aidan Gomez.

VentureBeat - Cohere announced a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha.

WHAT:

Techmeme - Cohere released Command A+, a sparse MoE open model with 218 billion total parameters and 25 billion active parameters.

VentureBeat - Command A+ is the first model released by Cohere under the Apache 2.0 license.

VentureBeat - The model is engineered for complex reasoning, multimodal document processing, and agentic workflows.

VentureBeat - Command A+ achieved a score of 85% on the 𝜏²-Bench Telecom benchmark, up from 37%.

VentureBeat - On Terminal-Bench Hard, Command A+ improved from 3% to 25% in agentic coding performance.

VentureBeat - In complex mathematics, Command A+ scored 90% on AIME 25, an increase from 57%.

WHERE:

VentureBeat - The model weights are available on the AI code sharing repository Hugging Face.

WHEN:

VentureBeat - Command A+ is set to be released on May 21, 2026.

WHY:

VentureBeat - Cohere aims to provide enterprises, governments, and developers the ability to run, control, and adapt AI within their own secure environments.

VentureBeat - The release under the Apache 2.0 license allows for total vendor independence and democratizes access to advanced AI capabilities.

HOW:

VentureBeat - Command A+ utilizes a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, activating only 25 billion parameters during generation.

VentureBeat - The model features quantization techniques, including 16-bit, 8-bit, and 4-bit formats, to enhance efficiency.

VentureBeat - Command A+ includes native citation generation, linking factual claims to specific source documents or database rows.

(UPDATED May 21, 2026 04:21 UTC)

Cohere, a Canadian AI lab co-founded by Aidan Gomez, has announced a merger with the German AI startup Aleph Alpha and is set to release its new model, Command A+, on May 21, 2026. This impressive model features a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with a total of 218 billion parameters, achieving significant improvements in various benchmarks, including an 85% score on the 𝜏²-Bench Telecom benchmark and a 90% in complex mathematics on AIME 25. Command A+ will be available on the AI code-sharing repository Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing enterprises and developers to run and adapt AI securely and independently.