Cohere Command A+: Apache-licensed open-source MoE model

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Cohere published a new open-source model that developers can download and run themselves, aimed at enterprise workloads like retrieval, long-context reasoning, and tool-using agents.

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Who is affected: developers, operators, enterprise teams
What changed: On May 20, 2026, Cohere announced Command A+, describing it as an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model released under the Apache 2.0 license and optimized for reasoning, multilingual use, multimodal inputs, and tool-using agent workflows.
Why it matters: Apache-licensed open weights expand the options for teams that need to run models inside their own networks for privacy, latency, or cost predictability. The practical question is whether performance, tool-use reliability, and deployment recipes are strong enough to make self-hosting realistic beyond demos.
What to watch next: Watch independent evaluations on real agent tool-use tasks, deployment performance at useful throughput, and how the model behaves with long-context retrieval workloads outside curated benchmarks.

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Cohere says Command A+ is released under the Apache 2.0 license with open weights.
It positions the model for agentic workflows, retrieval (RAG), and multilingual and multimodal tasks.
Cohere says the model is designed to be deployable with relatively modest high-end GPU setups.

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