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title: "Cohere releases open-weight translation model for 50 languages"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/cohere-releases-open-weight-translation-model-for-50-languages-99a07e
source_name: "MarkTechPost"
source_url: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/cohere-releases-north-small-translate-a-218b-moe-translation-model-that-scores-83-6-on-wmt26-across-50-languages/
published: 2026-09-11T06:57:22.000Z
topics: ["open source", "llms"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Cohere releases open-weight translation model for 50 languages

*2026-09-11 · Source: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/cohere-releases-north-small-translate-a-218b-moe-translation-model-that-scores-83-6-on-wmt26-across-50-languages/)*

Cohere released North Small Translate, an open-weight mixture-of-experts translation model using 25B of its 218B total parameters per token. It scores 83.6 on the WMT26 benchmark across 50 languages, with weights free for non-commercial use.

**Why it matters:** Dedicated, efficient translation models remain valuable even as general-purpose LLMs improve, since a specialized MoE model can offer competitive quality with a much lower active-parameter cost per query at inference time.

**Topics:** open source, llms

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