North Mini Code: Cohere's first agentic open-source coding model
5 days ago
- #Open-Source
- #Mixture-of-Experts
- #AI Coding Agent
- Launched North Mini Code open-source, Cohere's first agentic coding model using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture.
- Model size is 30B total parameters with 3B active, designed for efficiency and strong software development performance without heavy hardware demands.
- Freely available under Apache 2.0 license, promoting sovereign AI by giving developers direct access to agentic coding capabilities.
- Achieves competitive benchmark scores, including 33.4 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, and outperforms competitors in throughput and latency.
- Optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks, with 256K total context and 64K max generation length.
- Available on Hugging Face, Cohere API, Model Vault, and OpenRouter, with minimum hardware requirement of 1× H100 @ FP8.
- Designed for speed and efficiency, offering up to 2.8x higher output throughput and 30% advantage in inter-token latency compared to Devstral Small 2.
- Built for agentic workflows, including understanding sub-agents, mapping systems architecture, and running code reviews, with deployment flexibility on-prem or locally.
- Community feedback will shape future development as Cohere expands its ecosystem of open and sovereign developer models.
- Encourages developers to try the model, share their builds, and engage on platforms like X, Discord, or Reddit to influence the roadmap.