Aya Expanse 8B
Aya Expanse 8B is the compact variant of Cohere's multilingual Aya Expanse family, providing 23-language support in a resource-efficient 8B parameter model. It is aimed at production deployments where multilingual quality is required but full 32B inference costs are prohibitive — making it suitable for high-throughput multilingual pipelines and cost-sensitive global applications.
Like its 32B sibling, Aya Expanse 8B is grounded in the Aya multilingual research program, emphasizing language coverage across underrepresented communities. The 8B scale allows deployment on single mid-range GPUs or via affordable API calls, democratizing multilingual AI capability for smaller teams and emerging-market applications.
Key Features
23-language support at an efficient 8B parameter scale
Multilingual instruction following and text generation
Cost-efficient alternative to the 32B Aya Expanse for bulk workloads
Single-GPU deployable for on-premise multilingual inference
Developed with underrepresented language coverage as a core goal
Ideal Use Cases
High-volume multilingual content moderation and classification
Affordable multilingual chatbot deployment for global SMBs
Bulk translation and summarization across 23 language markets
Fine-tuning base for narrow multilingual domain applications
Example Prompts for Aya Expanse 8B
Technical Specifications
| Provider | Cohere |
| Category | Text |
| Modality | Text -> Text |
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