James Owers-Bardsley

MTS @cohere (prev: SrMLE @deliveroo, @heycurrent, ML for Music PhD @EdinburghUni, intern @Apple, ML MSc @UCL). Happiest when running/cycling/creating.

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@weddingsketcher sketched my wedding. The results are absolutely gorgeous! This was a gift from my now wife @dianatbardsley.

Here they are (a thread!)

[Aidan Gomez @aidangomez]

Our first fully open source Apache 2 model :)

[Nick Frosst @nickfrosst]

Command A+ from @cohere is out now :) its our best model yet and its open source apache 2.0

[Cohere @cohere]

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.

[Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant @ICLR🇧🇷 @seraphinagt]

New @iclr_conf paper: "Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression" with @henryconklin Tom Hosking @yichern_tan Julian Gold, Jonathan Cohen, @cocosci_lab @max_nlp. Check out 🧵, blog, arxiv: https://t.co/la4xJHf857, https://t.co/R8GIINOHLc (entropy vid from blog)

[Cohere @cohere]

Today we’re launching Model Vault — a dedicated, fully managed platform to run Cohere models securely and at scale.

Model Vault delivers the control and isolation of self-hosting, without the operational burden:

🔒 Dedicated, isolated VPC
⚡ No noisy neighbors or rate limits
🔁 Elastic inference with predictable performance
📈 Real-time usage and performance monitoring

No sharing. No limits. No surprises.

Let Model Vault take care of model scaling and serving — so you can focus on building.

[Cohere Labs @Cohere_Labs]

How do we build multimodal systems that work effectively across the globe? 🌍

Today we release the Aya Vision Technical Report, the detailed recipe behind Aya Vision models, unifying state-of-the-art multilingual capabilities in multimodal and text tasks across 23 languages!

[Cohere @cohere]

Introducing Embed 4: our latest state-of-the-art multimodal embedding model that enables enterprises to securely add powerful search and retrieval capabilities to their agentic AI applications!

[Max Bartolo @max_nlp]

I'm excited to the tech report for our @Cohere @CohereForAI Command A and Command R7B models. We highlight our novel approach to model training including the use of self-refinement algorithms and model merging techniques at scale. Command A is an efficient, agent-optimised multilingual model offering best-in-class capabilities. Read more below! ⬇️

[Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant @ICLR🇧🇷 @seraphinagt]

Today (two weeks after model launch 🔥) we're releasing a technical report of how we made Command A and R7B 🚀! It has detailed breakdowns of our training process, and evaluations per capability (tools, multilingual, code, reasoning, safety, enterprise, long context)🧵 1/3.

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

North is pretty great; my work contributes to the model behind it. I'm genuinely quite excited about avenues into healthcare and education which need this level of security, and am keen to see it tested.

Try it out!

[Cohere @cohere]

Today, we’re launching early access for North!

Our all-in-one secure AI workspace platform combines LLMs, search, and agents into an intuitive interface that effortlessly integrates AI into your daily work to achieve peak productivity.

[Cohere @cohere]

Introducing Command R7B: the smallest, fastest, and final model in our R series of enterprise-focused LLMs!

It delivers a powerful combination of state-of-the-art performance in its class and efficiency to lower the cost of building AI applications.

https://t.co/e2ah5c5x5J

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@tomsherborne @seraphinagt @EdinburghNLP THE GOAT

[Aidan Gomez @aidangomez]

⌘-R

Introducing Command-R, a model focused on scalability, RAG, and Tool Use. We've also released the weights for research use, we hope they're useful to the community!

https://t.co/0Q4Uj6zFjd

[Nick Frosst @nickfrosst]

First https://t.co/PKexik13p2

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@hm @EverydaySexism girls link - no pockets! https://t.co/EOHDUXin9X

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@hm
My son (3 months) and his friend got matching outfits. Why does his have pockets, but hers does not?
#everydaySexism @EverydaySexism #pockets #babyClothes #Patriarchy
https://t.co/9T1xVI8JXe vs https://t.co/EOHDUXin9X

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@weddingsketcher Big news since then - baby Rowan was born on Thursday… we will likely have a commission request for you incoming!!!

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@christatum4949 @LNER I’ve lost mine before - it’s so annoying! These things are stupidly expensive.

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@LNER when I got off the train today I noticed the person sitting opposite me left all their cables behind. They were on the 09:00 KGX -> EDB in G37 - they got off at Berwick upon Tweed. Please May you help reunite them with RT?!

[James Owers-Bardsley @jamesowers]

@LNER Excellent - I’ll pop back to Waverley and hand them in tomorrow. Thank you 🙏🏻