# Cohere — Introducing North Small Translate: A leading sovereign open-weight machine translation model

- Company: Cohere (cohere.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-10
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: 1 outlet
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://cohere.com/blog/north-small-translate
- Record: https://forck.live/items/9925-introducing-north-small-translate-a-leading-sovereign-open-weight-machine
- Subject: Command
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: North Small Translate, Gemma 4 31B, GLM 5.2, Mistral Large 3, Qwen 3.5 397B A17B, DeepL NextGen, Google Translate, Command A Translate, Command A+, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
- Pricing: $0.000676 per task

Cohere released North Small Translate, a mixture-of-experts machine translation model that achieves an 83.6 WMT26 benchmark score across 50+ languages, outperforming proprietary models like DeepL and Google Translate as well as open-weight alternatives. The model is available for research and non-commercial use under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and was developed in partnership with RWS.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cohere.com/blog/north-small-translate:

> Today, we're releasing North Small Translate, a mixture-of-experts machine translation model with strong performance across 50+ languages.

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- Marktechpost — Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages: https://marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/cohere-releases-north-small-translate-a-218b-moe-translation-model-that-scores-83-6-on-wmt26-across-50-languages

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