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Cohere has released Transcribe, a 2 billion parameter open-source automatic speech recognition model that the company claims tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a 5.42% word error rate. The model supports 14 languages and is available under Apache 2.0 license, outperforming OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and competing models on both accuracy and throughput metrics.

Cohere Labs has released tiny-aya-global, a lightweight text generation model trained to support conversational tasks across 100+ languages. The model is available on Hugging Face under a CC-BY-NC-4.0 license and builds on the tiny-aya-base architecture.