Cohere Releases Command A+: An Open-Source Enterprise AI Model Built for Sovereign Critical Infrastructure

Command A+ by Cohere is an open-source AI model designed to provide sovereignty, efficiency, and performance for enterprises, governments, and critical infrastructures. It aims to counter the dominance of large tech companies by offering organizations control over their AI systems. The model is optimized for enterprise deployment, featuring a scalable MoE architecture that activates only a portion of its 218 billion parameters per prompt to enable cost-effective and reliable AI applications. It supports complex workloads like RAG pipelines and multi-step SQL generation while offering multimodal capabilities for processing visual data. Command A+ also delivers strong multilingual performance across 48 languages, aligning with global compliance needs, including the EU AI Act. With fully open weights under Apache 2.0, it ensures transparency and control, eliminating vendor lock-in and allowing for on-premises deployments. The model is designed to provide total data sovereignty and regulatory alignment, meeting the growing demand for AI systems that offer complete ownership and operational control.