Summary
Cohere released Command A+ under Apache 2.0, positioning it as an open-source enterprise model for multimodal reasoning, multilingual workflows, and agentic tasks. The company says it can run with a small serving footprint while staying usable for private deployment and production workflows.
What changed
Cohere launched Command A+ as an open-source multimodal reasoning model with enterprise and sovereign deployment positioning.
Why it matters
Open-weight enterprise models are becoming a serious alternative to hosted-only agent stacks for teams that need control over deployment, compliance, or cost. Command A+ strengthens Cohere's pitch that agentic capabilities do not have to require surrendering infrastructure control to frontier labs.
Evidence excerpt
Cohere says Command A+ is now freely available under Apache 2.0 and is an open-source enterprise workhorse for complex reasoning, multimodal, and multilingual agentic tasks.