Cohere Releases Command A+: An Open-Source Enterprise AI Model Built for Sovereign Critical Infrastructure

Today, we’re announcing the release of Command A+, a powerful, efficient open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model released under the Apache 2.0 license. Purpose‑built for sovereign critical infrastructure, Command A+ gives enterprises and public sector organizations the transparency, control, and efficiency required to deploy AI at scale while upholding the highest standards of security and data sovereignty.

Today, organizations operating critical systems face growing concerns around transparency, security, vendor dependence, and long‑term sovereignty. Command A+ addresses these challenges with a fully open‑weight model that can be deployed wherever sensitive data resides—whether in a VPC, on‑premises, or fully air‑gapped—while providing complete operational control and confidence.

The world is building its future on AI systems that offer no guarantee of control. And when only a few big companies control the technology, people have little ability to shape how their AI systems work or evolve. That’s why it’s so important to prioritize sovereignty now and make sure organizations can own their intelligence layer instead of renting it. Command A+ is part of our effort to make that possible. We’re delivering a sovereign, open‑source model built for critical infrastructure that gives people, enterprises, and governments the trust, performance, and efficiency they need to run real‑world systems at scale.Nick FrosstCo‑founderCohere

The world is building its future on AI systems that offer no guarantee of control. And when only a few big companies control the technology, people have little ability to shape how their AI systems work or evolve. That’s why it’s so important to prioritize sovereignty now and make sure organizations can own their intelligence layer instead of renting it. Command A+ is part of our effort to make that possible. We’re delivering a sovereign, open‑source model built for critical infrastructure that gives people, enterprises, and governments the trust, performance, and efficiency they need to run real‑world systems at scale.

Command A+ is engineered for the realities of enterprise deployment, where reliability, cost efficiency, and operational performance determine whether a system can be deployed at all. In a world of global compute scarcity, where every token has an opportunity cost, Command A+ delivers advanced reasoning with a minimal compute footprint. Its MoE architecture spans 218 billion parameters while activating only 24 billion parameters per prompt, enabling high‑performance inference on as few as two H100s or a single B200 GPU. This efficiency makes Command A+ practical for private deployments where hardware is fixed and cost predictability is essential.

While many large models are optimized for standardized benchmarks, Command A+ is built for the actual workloads enterprises run under tight compute budgets: complex RAG pipelines, multi‑step SQL generation, and high‑stakes financial document analysis. Its multimodal capabilities extend this performance to visual data, enabling organizations to process charts, PDF’s, slides, and complex reports. It balances latency, reasoning depth, tool use, and cost to achieve the equilibrium that makes AI deployable, not just demonstrable.

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Command A+ delivers strong multilingual performance for global teams, supporting 48 languages, including all official EU languages. With the EU AI Act now in effect, organizations operating across Europe need models that provide accurate linguistic and cultural understanding. The model also offers robust support for Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and other widely used global languages, enabling multinational teams to work across regions while meeting local data‑residency and compliance requirements.

Released with fully open weights under Apache 2.0, Command A+ gives organizations full transparency into model behavior and complete control over deployment.

Across regulated industries, organizations are moving from experimental AI to systems that deliver reliability, security, efficiency, and full operational control like the Cohere North platform. As demand for sovereign AI accelerates, enterprises and public‑sector agencies are prioritizing deployments that give them complete ownership of their data, infrastructure, and model behavior. Command A+ is built to meet these requirements: a transparent, controllable, open‑source model designed for large‑scale production environments.