# Hugging Face — A Deepdive into Aya Expanse: Advancing the Frontier of Multilinguality

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-10-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Aya Expanse 8B, Aya Expanse 32B
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/aya-expanse
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1804-a-deepdive-into-aya-expanse-advancing-the-frontier-of-multilinguality

Cohere For AI releases the Aya Expanse family of multilingual models (8B and 32B parameters) as open weights, claiming state-of-the-art multilingual performance that outperforms larger models like Llama 3.1 70B and rivals in its class. The blog details technical innovations including data arbitrage, multilingual preference training, safety tuning, and model merging.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/aya-expanse:

> With the release of the Aya Expanse family, featuring 8B and 32B parameter models, we are addressing one of the most urgent challenges in AI: the lack of highly performant multilingual models that can rival the capabilities of monolingual ones.

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