Introducing: Cohere Command A+
We’ve created our most powerful LLM yet, optimized it to run on as little hardware as possible, and released it open-source for all.
Proud to announce that Cohere has been awarded first place in NATO’s Agentic AI for Cognitive Warfare Innovation Challenge.
Congratulations to our fellow finalists: OpenMinds, which secured second place, and Ipsos and Thoughtworks, which shared third.
The competition highlighted the growing role of agentic AI in helping democratic nations understand, anticipate and respond to information threats. We're honoured to have our work recognised by NATO and proud to be contributing technology that strengthens decision-making and resilience across the Alliance.
@huggingface@Gradio Registration closes tomorrow, Wednesday, June 3rd. Register here: https://t.co/lJ89NzaR7V
If you're looking for a model to use to tackle this hackathon, check out Transcribe & Tiny Aya (led by @alexrs95). Both models fit the parameters of the challenge.
We're sponsoring a hackathon to scale down.
Hosted by our friends @huggingface and @Gradio, we want working with models to feel like yours again. Small enough that it's inexpensive to run, big enough that it can change the life of someone you care about.
Build something delightfully weird that only AI could help you create, or pick a problem for someone you actually know and build a solution. The choice is yours 🧙
The story gets bigger beyond Europe.
Command A+ makes major gains in high-impact non-Latin languages; outperforming Mistral Medium 3.5 in Korean, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese, and Arabic.
For Arabic, that gap becomes:
+5 pts over Mistral Medium 3.5
+10 pts over DeepSeek V4 Pro
Sovereign AI. IA souveraine. ソブリンAI. الذكاء الاصطناعي السيادي
Command A+ sets a new high for Cohere's machine translation capabilities.
Opening a clear gap over open source peers Mistral Medium 3.5, DeepSeek, & OpenAI's gpt-oss, as well as Claude Opus 4.6. A+ also outperforms specialist systems like Google Translate.
RWS is better... but we built that with them too
The improvements run wide.
Across all major European languages, Command A+ consistently pulls ahead of competitors on WMT24++ (xCOMET-XL):
🇫🇷 +2.4 pts in French
🇪🇸 +1.9 pts in Spanish
🇩🇪 +0.9 pts in German
Higher translation quality means fewer corrections, stronger retrieval, and more reliable multilingual agents.
Europe’s sovereign AI moment arrives in Heilbronn next week.
At TECH by Handelsblatt 2026, Cohere CEO and Co-founder, @aidangomez, will join leaders across business, policy, and industry to discuss how enterprises can move from AI exploration to secure implementation on 31st May.
Sign up to receive Cohere’s executive briefing after TECH 2026, or request a meeting with our team in Heilbronn.
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