Cohere Labs

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One of the most rewarding parts of open research is watching the community take your work further than you could on your own. It's been just 6 months since we launched 🤏Tiny Aya 🤏 and here's a look at all the exciting projects coming out of Expedition Tiny Aya:

so honored to have been a mentor for expedition tiny aya. 🤏🏻🤏🏻 here is the blog post of our project: labscommunity.cohere.com/blog/2026/adap… huge shoutout to Alper Balbay and @cataluna84 ❤️‍🔥🎉

And special shout-out to all the @cohere mentors who shared their expertise throughout the Expedition. Ali Edalati, @ammar__khairi, Charlie Chen, @mrdanieldsouza, David Rau, @irombie, Julia Kreutzer, @nikita_moghe, @niko_gritsch, @saurabhdash, @thosking, @tomsherborne, @viraataryabumi, @beyzaermis, Evgenia Rusak, @Julianfmack, Parth Patel, Sam Bhargav and @weiyinko_ml. Congrats all. You're showing what's possible when open science, mentorship, and a global community come together. 🌍

Huge congratulations to every participant and mentor who made this possible. Thank you for helping push multilingual AI forward. ❤️ Abhishek Thomas, @AdnanElAssadi, Ahanaf Aziz, Ahmet Erdem Pamuk, Akanksha Devkar, @AlexisGimmy, Alisa Banerjee, @MustapahaYusuf, Alper Balbay, Ananya, Ankita Maity, @nuna_ade, @ayesha_imr, @aktasbatuhann, Bhavesh Kalisetti, @Bronsn4, @danylo_boiko, @_dhruvzzz_, Elena Dobre, @LifeHodlr, Fatih Bugra Akdogan, @gustiwinata_, Hamza Shezad, Henok Ademtew, Jasmine Zou, Jing Guo, @jodamatta, Kato Steven Mubiru, @katrinal2899, Khojasteh Mirza, @withmadico, Matthew Nguyen, @cataluna84, Michael Chang, @mik_cil, Naufal Adityo, @ojwrapper, Olena Bugaiova, Ömer Yentür, @paarths_, Pravan, Rabius Sany, @rafay_mustafa1, Randy Christian Saputra, @RashikShahjahan, @saadahmedbazaz, Saad Nasir, Sajag Swami, Sarah Jawaid, Shayam Shamsi, @notsoshubham_, @ignoreandfly, Sirichada Wattanasiritanawong, Sohaib Bazaz, Srimoyee Mukhopadhyay, Sudhanshu Mishra, @suparnojit26, @tahseenr0, @tanav2202, @VioletJockey72, @chiffonng, Trishanu Das, Van Ngo, @VivekS100, Wahyu Dwi Nugraha, and Yuvraj Singh

Tiny Aya is proof that multilingual AI doesn't have to be massive or limited to a handful of languages. In recent months, researchers worldwide have used Tiny Aya to build projects in education, accessibility, safety, interpretability, & more. 🚀🤏🌎 cohere.com/blog/tiny-aya-…

Many impactful work starts as an annoying question that everyone else ignored

We co-sponsored the @huggingface hackathon with one purpose: get back to building small. Today, two projects using Cohere's models were awarded for their exceptional work creating something useful, whimsical, or just plain cool.

𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐂𝐨-𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 🌍 @Bronsn4 (Bronson Bakunga) and I have led this community/program, and it has given us far more than we ever gave it. Mentorship, research collaborations, a Gold Award at Expedition Aya, the foundations of everything we've built at @Crails_Inc (Crane AI Labs). It all started right here. Now it's time to pass that forward. Over the next few months, our aim is to find and mentor the next generation of Co-Leads , builders who can take this community further than we did. 𝐖𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞'𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝: running research projects, hosting world-class speakers, building networks across the continent, and turning community work into real opportunity. It starts next Tuesday, July 21 at our Monthly Meet Up — open to everyone, from every corner of Africa. Come share what you're building, meet the community, and if you've been waiting for a sign to step up: this is it. 🔗 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲: cohere.com/research/open-… ❤️ @cohere @Cohere_Labs Madeline Smith Brittawnya Prince Alejandro Rodríguez Salamanca @mziizm Fadaee Julia Kreutzer

📢 Live in a few minutes — join us! @Cohere_Labs' Computer Vision community leads, Mayank Bhaskar (@cataluna84) and Benedict (@Arkhymadhe), are hosting a special session with Daniel Ajisafe on a topic every video-AI practitioner should care about: how to make video generation models faithfully follow user intent — with minimal edits, not full re-renders. This matters because current video diffusion pipelines are expensive and brittle to fine-grained edits. @danielajisafe's work tackles that head-on. 📄 Paper: "Making Video Models Adhere to User Intent with Minor Adjustments" arxiv.org/abs/2603.19672 📅 Today, 14th July 2026 ⏰ 11:00 AM EDT 🔗 Join here: luma.com/syz5r5pg?tk=LC… If you work in generative video, diffusion models, or multimodal AI — this is worth 60 minutes of your time. Tag a colleague who'd want in. #ComputerVision #GenerativeAI #VideoGeneration #MachineLearning

This Thursday, we'll be joined by @ShashwatGoel7 - we hope you will join too! RSVP to learn more and get the link: luma.com/54nzpxsy

Congrats to all winners of the @huggingface Build Small Hackathon! Special shout-out to the teams that podiumed by using @Cohere and Cohere Labs models, including Tiny Army ⚔️, Eyas 👀, and Grandpa's Bedtime Stories 📚. See all winners here: huggingface.co/spaces/build-s…

Watch the full fireside chat here: youtu.be/z_rDUFxwGmM Or our Submission 101 call: youtu.be/NT47u1ScU8E

Linguistics olympiad puzzles are a step above basic language tasks. So: are LLMs there yet? If not, how long do we have? @DanMirea4 on why this might be the real test 🎥 iolai.org

We look forward to welcoming @SharonYixuanLi for her talk "Does Your Agent Know It's Lost? Uncertainty and Progress Signals for Reliable LLM Agents," hosted by @beyzaermis. Learn more and RSVP: luma.com/u4z8ch8k

⏰ 14 DAYS TO GO! The countdown to ML Summer School has begun! 🚀 Don't miss your chance to: - Learn about some of the latest ML topics - Join virtually from anywhere in the world - Earn a certificate to showcase your skills Spots are filling fast - register now to save your seat: cohere.link/xHeONbj

I cannot be translated. I cannot be web-searched. I only make sense if you grew up where I did. What am I? A good riddle. We're building a multicultural benchmark of culturally grounded riddles from communities around the world. We're not looking for translators: we're looking for locals. Come stump the machines and ensure your culture is represented in the next chapter. Join our server to get involved: discord.gg/RhNX2STPj

New blog from our community! Alper Balbay and @cataluna84 introduce us to a novel end‑to‑end Turkish↔Hindi speech‑to‑speech translation that uses a text‑only multilingual model to bootstrap audio generation. 🌍 Read the full post at: labscommunity.cohere.com/blog/2026/adap…

When our community leads asked 'What if...', they brought a visionary idea to life. 💡 Our ML Summer School is 100% free and virtual - open to anyone, anywhere who wants to learn ML. A huge thank you to all of our community leads for organizing this program @AhmadMustafaAn1, @Rafay_Mustafa1, @KanwalMehreen2, @PrahithaM, Anu Adesina, @VivekS100, @rahul_narava! Join us: cohere.link/xHeONbj Read more about @AhmadMustafaAn1's journey: cohere-labs-community.github.io/blog/2026/from…