Enterprise AI company Cohere has launched a new family of open-weight multilingual models called Tiny Aya, supporting over 70 languages and capable of running on everyday devices without an internet connection.
Launched at the India AI Summit, the models support South Asian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi. The base model contains 3.35 billion parameters. Regional variants include 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 in linguistically diverse regions like India.
