Enterprise AI company Cohere has launched a new family of multilingual models called Tiny Aya, available as open-weight for anyone to use and modify. The models support over 70 languages and can run on everyday devices like laptops without requiring an internet connection.
The models, launched at the India AI Summit, support South Asian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi. The base model contains 3.35 billion parameters. Cohere also released regional variants: TinyAya-Global for broad language support, TinyAya-Earth for African languages, TinyAya-Fire for South Asia, and TinyAya-Water for Asia Pacific and Europe.
According to CNBC, Cohere ended 2025 with $240 million in annual recurring revenue and 50% quarter-over-quarter growth. CEO Aidan Gomez said the company plans to go public soon.
The models are available on HuggingFace, Kaggle, and Ollama for local deployment, making them ideal for offline translation and research purposes in linguistically diverse regions like India.
