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Aya
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"A global initiative led by Cohere For AI involving over 3,000 independent researchers across 119 countries. Aya is a state-of-art model and dataset, pushing the boundaries of multilingual AI for 101 languages through open science."
Both the model and the training data are released under Apache 2. The training data looks particularly interesting: "513 million instances through templating and translating existing datasets across 114 languages" - suggesting the data is mostly automatically generated.
Via Hacker News
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