LLMs and models

Command A

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Command A is a large language model from Cohere built for business use, especially for agents, tool use and answering questions from company documents.

In plain words

Many companies want a model that can search their own files, call business tools and work in several languages, without needing a huge computer. Command A has 111 billion parameters and a 256,000-token context window, yet runs on just two high-end GPUs. It supports 23 languages and is strong at retrieval-augmented generation, where answers are grounded in retrieved documents. Its weights were released for research use.

A quick example

Imagine an employee asking an internal assistant about the travel policy. Command A could search the company handbook, pull out the right section and answer with a citation to where it found it.

Where you'll meet it

  • Enterprise agents that call search engines, APIs and databases.
  • RAG assistants over company documents, in many languages.

Related

Sources

  1. PaperCommand A: An Enterprise-Ready Large Language Model, Cohere (arXiv) · read 29 Sept 2026
  2. DocsCommand A, Cohere Docs · read 29 Sept 2026

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