Cohere releases Command A+ as an open-source sovereign AI model

Cohere's Command A+ is an important model release because it targets the enterprise and sovereign-AI middle ground rather than pure leaderboard spectacle. Released May 20, the model is Cohere's first mixture-of-experts model, with 218B total parameters and 25B active parameters. Cohere says it combines vision inputs, reasoning, translation, and agentic tasks in one set of weights, supports 48 languages including all official EU languages, and can be deployed with as little as one B200 or two H100 GPUs. The company also says throughput is up to 110% higher and latency 30% lower than Command A Reasoning. The key point is deployability: Apache 2.0 open-source licensing and lower hardware requirements make this a serious option for governments, regulated industries, and enterprises that want private model control without starting from scratch.

Key details: Cohere, Command A+, May 20, 2026, 218B total parameters, 25B active parameters, Mixture of Experts, Apache 2.0, 48 languages.

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