North model releases

Cohere's compact document-focused vision-language model, published Aug 12 2026 under Apache 2.0. A 2.4B-parameter VLM combining a custom 400M native-resolution vision encoder, a 2B language model on the Command A+ architecture, and a projector; it preserves aspect ratio for images up to 1654x2339px (an A4 page at 200 dpi). Multilingual visual understanding across documents, charts, and natural images, text output. Vendor-reported: 0.921 DocVQA and 0.808 ChartQA on document tasks, 0.732 RefCOCO on visual grounding, and 0.687 MMBench on general VQA; text-only capability lags larger models. Part of Cohere's North product family alongside North Mini Code. Open weights on Hugging Face.

Cohere's first developer-focused model and the first in its North family of code agents. A 30B-total / 3B-active MoE for agentic coding with a 256K context and up to 64K output, sized to run locally for enterprise coding agents. Apache-2.0.