Cohere cracks lossless quantization and native citations with first full Apache 2.0 licensed open model Command A+

Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha , but now it has even more in store for enterprise builders around the globe: today, the firm co-founded by former Googler and "Attention Is All You Need" co-author Aidan Gomez unveiled Command A+ , a highly optimized, 218-billion-parameter language model engineered specifically for complex reasoning, multimodal document processing, and agentic workflows. The most significant aspect of the release is not just the model’s capabilities; it is its accessibility. By releasing the model weights free on the popular AI code sharing repository Hugging Face under a highly permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license — a first for the company, according to a post by Gomez, now Cohere's CEO, on X — Cohere is making a calculated bet on "sovereign AI"—the thesis that enterprises, governments, and developers should have the ability to run, control, and adapt frontier-grade AI entirely within their own s