Vivek Silimkhan Congrats on completing the challenge, Vivek! Thank you for your contributions to the community :-) If you enjoyed your experience and found it valuable, please encourage others you know to take the challenge themselves! bit.ly/41Esy8O

Remembering when Aya was still “Mystery Bot” and taught us all about celebrating Diwali 🪔 A huge thanks to our Hindi Language Ambassador, Vivek Silimkhan for all of his efforts in helping us launch Aya in such a special way. Try Aya Expanse on WhatsApp: cohere.com/research/aya/w…

A huge congratulations to all teams that took part in Expedition Aya 2025. 🚀 We had 150+ researchers from around the world team up and collaborate in an open build challenge to accelerate ML research progress in multilingual, multimodal and efficiency. 🧵of winning teams...

👀 Aya Sight - studied how to leverage VLMs to help visually impaired people navigate the world. Team members: Vivek Silimkhan and Srimoyee Mukhopadhyay.

📈 The Drafter Abides - explored multilingual speculative decoding to make LLMs more efficient. Team members: harsha, Ravi Theja, Mayank Rakesh, Nirmal Thomas, Sharad Duwal, Katrina Lawrence, Vivek Silimkhan, Trishanu Das, and Kian Kyars.

Our open science community welcomes a new group focusing on agents, led by Ram Kadiyala & Jebish7. They'll explore: 📊evaluation frameworks 🖥️agentic applications 🏇efficient systems ...via panel discussions and community-led projects. Join our community on this exploration.

If you are in the ML space, do yourself a favor and join the Cohere Labs community on Discord! It is by far the best ML community I have ever been a part of 🥳🎉 I learned so much from the community, formed great connections, and made awesome friends! We worked on great ideas

We're searching for the next wave of rising stars ✨ Applications are open until the 29th: cohere.com/research/schol…

In 2025, our Open Science Community Leads showed what’s possible when AI research is built in the open. 38 leads, 17 programs, 125 guest speakers advancing open, collaborative AI across the world (find all talks here! cohere.link/uw1lvQQ). 🤯

Our community-led beginners in research driven studies (BIRDS) group is excited to announce their next sprint which offers 3⃣ specialized tracks designed to build deep expertise in NLP, CV and RL. Participants will develop strong research literacy, reproducibility skills, and