Aya Expanse 8B is an AI model developed by Cohere for AI (Canada), first published in October 2024. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and translation.
Training it took an estimated 1.7×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 8,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 34.5B datapoints.
Access: Open weights (restricted use). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.