Introducing Cohere's first open-source coding model: North Mini Code
Small & efficient, designed for agentic performance and built for community input.
Prior to release, we shared a version of @cohere North Mini Code with AI engineers and answered some questions.
Here's a quick illustrated walkthrough of the model's architecture and training process.
Small models fill an important niche. They:
1. run on more widely available
Four days ago, co-founder @nickfrosst warned about the dangers of subscriptions to proprietary LLMs on @MTSlive:
"We released [North Mini Code] because we think this technology needs to be sovereign. It needs to be owned, and controlled, by the people who use it."
As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.
Here’s what this means for you:
Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and
When you rent your artificial intelligence, you have no control, and no choice. This is why sovereignty and ownership matters.
Whether it means using your own hardware, open source, or deep customization. Own your AI, own your future.
We released North Mini Code, our first open-source coding model, just two days ago. We’re already seeing developers using it to build amazing things ⬇️