Aya Vision

Cohere For AI has introduced Aya Vision, a new AI model that helps improve communication across many languages and formats. It was released on March 4, 2025, and comes in two versions: Aya Vision 8B and Aya Vision 32B, each with its own special features.

Key Features

Aya Vision is special because it can combine language and vision abilities in 23 major languages. This makes it useful for about half the world''s population. Here are some things it can do:
- Create captions for images
- Answer questions about images
- Translate text and images into natural language
- Summarize content in multiple languages

Benefits

Aya Vision models are versatile and efficient. Even though they are smaller, they work better than many leading models.
- Aya Vision 8B performs better than models like Qwen2.5 VL 7B and Llama 3.2 11B Vision, with up to 79% win rates on tests like AyaVisionBench and m WildVision.
- Aya Vision 32B even beats larger models such as Meta''s Llama 3.2 90B Vision, setting new standards in visual understanding.

Use Cases

Aya Vision''s abilities make it valuable in many areas:
- Language Learning and Education: It makes educational content easier to access.
- Cultural Preservation: It can create detailed descriptions of art and landmarks.
- Accessibility Tools: It helps visually impaired users with detailed image descriptions.
- Global Communication: It enables real time multimodal translation for organizations and individuals.

Cost Price

Aya Vision models are available under a Creative Commons 4.0 license with Cohere''s acceptable use addendum. They can be accessed through:
- Hugging Face: An AI development platform.
- Kaggle: A platform for data science competitions and datasets.
- WhatsApp: Allowing users to interact with the model directly.

Funding

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