A Deepdive into Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality
With the release of the Aya Vision family, our new 8B and 32B parameter vision-language models (VLMs), we are addressing one of the biggest challenges in AI: bringing multilingual performance to multimodal models.
Aya Vision is Cohere For AI‘s latest open-weight multilingual and multimodal model family, designed to be a strong foundation for language and vision understanding across 23 languages. It builds on the success of Aya Expanse, state-of-the-art multilingual language models, and extends it using a combination of advanced techniques. These include synthetic annotations, scaling up multilingual data through translation and rephrasing, and multimodal