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license: cc-by-sa-4.0
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## Overview

Aya Expanse is an open-weight research release of a model with highly advanced multilingual capabilities. It focuses on pairing a highly performant pre-trained Command family of models with the result of a year’s dedicated research from Cohere For AI, including data arbitrage, multilingual preference training, safety tuning, and model merging. The result is a powerful multilingual large language model serving 23 languages.

## Variants

| No | Variant | Cortex CLI command |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [main/default](https://huggingface.co/aya-expanse/llama3.2/tree/main) | `cortex run aya-expanse` |

## Use it with Jan (UI)

1. Install **Jan** using [Quickstart](https://jan.ai/docs/quickstart)
2. Use in Jan model Hub:
    ```
    cortexso/aya-expanse
    ```

## Use it with Cortex (CLI)

1. Install **Cortex** using [Quickstart](https://cortex.jan.ai/docs/quickstart)
2. Run the model with command:
    ```
    cortex run aya-expanse
    ```

## Credits

- **Author:** CohereAI
- **Converter:** [Homebrew](https://www.homebrew.ltd/)
- **Original License:** [License](https://cohere.com/c4ai-cc-by-nc-license)
- **Papers:** [Aya Expanse Blog](https://cohere.com/blog/aya-expanse-connecting-our-world)