Cohere Releases Command A+ for Sovereign AI Deployments

Cohere announced the release of Command A+, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model released under the Apache 2.0 license. [1] The model is purpose-built for sovereign critical infrastructure, providing transparency, control, and efficiency for enterprises and public sector organizations. [1] Command A+ is designed to be deployed where sensitive data resides, offering deployment options including a VPC, on-premises, or fully air-gapped setups. [1]

Command A+ utilizes an MoE architecture with 218 billion parameters, but only activates 24 billion parameters per prompt. [1] This design allows for high-performance inference on as few as two H100s or a single B200 GPU. [1] The model is also described as multimodal and multilingual, supporting 48 languages. [1]

Cohere's release of Command A+ targets organizations needing strict control over their data, offering a viable alternative to closed-source models. By supporting air-gapped and on-premises deployments, it directly addresses data privacy and sovereignty concerns for governments and regulated industries. The model's efficient parameter activation lowers the hardware barrier, requiring only two H100s or one B200, making enterprise-scale AI more accessible. What the sources don't address: How Command A+ performs against comparable open-weight models on standard benchmarks.