New enterprise AI model outperforms DeepSeek, ChatGPT on several enterprise-specific tasks, company says

Meta is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit in France brought by trade associations representing publishers and authors, who accuse the company of training its generative artificial intelligence model on their books without permission. Publishers’ trade association SNE, authors’ association SGDL and writers’ union SNAC brought the suit in a Paris court focused on intellectual property, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (March 12). SNE President Vincent Montagne told a press conference Wednesday that the group has also told the European Commission that Meta’s actions violated European Union rules, according to the report

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Canadian AI startup Cohere launched in 2019 specifically targeting the enterprise, but independent research has shown it has so far struggled to gain much of a market share among third-party developers compared to rival proprietary U.S. model providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, not to mention the rise of Chinese open-source competitor DeepSeek.Yet Cohere continues to bolster its offerings: Today, its non-profit research division Cohere for AI announced the release of its first vision model, Aya Vision, a new open-weight multimodal AI model that integrates language and vision capabilities and boasts the differentiator of supporting inputs in 23 different languages spoken by what Cohere says in an official blog post is “half the world’s population,” making it appeal to a wide global audience.Aya Vision is designed to enhance AI’s ability to interpret images, generate text, and translate visual content into natural language, making multilingual AI more accessible and effective. This would be especially helpful for enterprises and organizations operating in multiple markets around the world with different language preferences.It’s available now on Cohere’s website and on AI code communities Hugging Face and Kaggle under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, allowing researchers and developers to freely use, modify and share the model for non-commercial purposes as long as proper attribution is given.In addition, Aya Vision is available through WhatsApp, allowing users to interact with the model directly in a familiar environment.This limits its use for enterprises and as an engine for paid apps or moneymaking workflows, unfortunately. It comes in 8-billion and 32-billion parameter versions (parameters refer to the number of internal settings in an AI model, including its weights and biases, with more usually denoting a more powerful and performant model).Supports 23 languages and countingEven though leading AI models from rivals can understand text across multiple languages, extending this capability to vision-based tasks is a challenge.But Aya Vision overcomes this by allowing users to generate image captions, answer visual questions, translate images, and perform text-based language tasks in a diverse set of languages:1