North Mini Code: Cohere's New Coding Model
Cohere has introduced North Mini Code, a 30-billion-parameter model for programmers. It was trained on coding, terminal work and interaction with tools. The model is released under the Apache 2.0 license and is available on Hugging Face. In quality, it outperforms Qwen and Mistral Small.
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Cohere has released North Mini Code, a coding model built specifically for programmers and for work with AI agents.
Is North Mini Code free?
Yes. It is available on Hugging Face under the open Apache 2.0 license.
How does North Mini Code differ from other models?
It uses a Mixture of Experts architecture: 128 experts, 8 of which are active at the same time, and an attention mechanism with a 3:1 ratio of local to global attention.
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Key Questions Answered
Is North Mini Code free?
Yes. It is available on Hugging Face under the open Apache 2.0 license.
How does North Mini Code differ from other models?
It uses a Mixture of Experts architecture: 128 experts, 8 of which are active at the same time, and an attention mechanism with a 3:1 ratio of local to global attention.
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