Language modelOpen weights
Tiny Aya Fire
Cohere Labs
- Released
- February 17, 2026
- Data date
- October 3, 2026
Tiny Aya Fire directs Cohere Labs’ compact multilingual model toward South Asia. Like Global, it has 3.35 billion parameters, but with a regional focus. It belongs to the Tiny Aya family covering more than 70 languages. Cohere releases the local weights for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0 with additional usage terms.
Specifications and access
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Release | February 17, 2026Source |
| Parameters | 3.35 billionSource |
| Languages | More than 70 languages across the Tiny Aya familySource |
| Specialization | Strengths for South Asian languagesSource |
| Context window | 8K input tokens (model card)Source |
| License | CC BY-NC 4.0 with Cohere usage termsSource |
| Weight download | After accepting Cohere’s terms on Hugging FaceSource |
Measurements without matching peer values
These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
Europe (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0.889
- Score
- 0.889
- Metric
- Europe
- Unit
- ratio
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Cohere announcement chart pixels
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Same Regional Performance Heatmap/Daily Score; South Asia specialization.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. Provider aggregate, not standard external leaderboard
West Asia (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0.879
- Score
- 0.879
- Metric
- West Asia
- Unit
- ratio
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Cohere announcement chart pixels
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Same Regional Performance Heatmap/Daily Score; South Asia specialization.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. Provider aggregate, not standard external leaderboard
Asia-Pacific (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0.85
- Score
- 0.85
- Metric
- Asia-Pacific
- Unit
- ratio
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Cohere announcement chart pixels
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Same Regional Performance Heatmap/Daily Score; South Asia specialization.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. Provider aggregate, not standard external leaderboard
South Asia (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0.901
- Score
- 0.901
- Metric
- South Asia
- Unit
- ratio
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Cohere announcement chart pixels
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Same Regional Performance Heatmap/Daily Score; South Asia specialization.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. Provider aggregate, not standard external leaderboard
Africa (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 0.669
- Score
- 0.669
- Metric
- Africa
- Unit
- ratio
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Cohere announcement chart pixels
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Same Regional Performance Heatmap/Daily Score; South Asia specialization.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. Provider aggregate, not standard external leaderboard
Sources and data date
Every statement links to its underlying documentation or leaderboard.
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Research status | Research date October 4, 2026. 1 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Additional source | Cohere Labs Tiny Aya announcement (retrieved October 3, 2026; October 4, 2026) · Cohere Labs Tiny Aya announcement · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026 |
| Additional source | Cohere Labs Aya research page (retrieved October 3, 2026) · Cohere Labs Aya research page · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026 |
| Additional source | Tiny Aya Fire model card (retrieved October 3, 2026) · Tiny Aya Fire model card · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026 |