Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed The licence is the headline. Command A+ ships under Apache 2.0 — Cohere's first major Command-family model that is genuinely open for commercial use, with no separate Cohere licence required to put it in a product. It is a big model that behaves like a small one. 218B total parameters, but a sparse Mixture-of-Experts design activates only about 25B per token, so it runs on as few as two H100 GPUs at 4-bit. It is built for grounded enterprise work. 128K context, 48 languages, and native citation grounding — aimed squarely at on-prem, agentic and long-context document workflows. The timing is strategic. It lands weeks after Cohere's merger with Aleph Alpha and on the same day as a sovereign-AI agreement with Spain's Indra Group. Pro tip "Open weights" and "open source" are not…
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