# Cohere's new translation model is open weights -- but not for commercial use

DevFeed: [Cohere's new translation model is open weights -- but not for commercial use](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cohere-s-new-translation-model-is-open-weights-but-not-for-commercial-use-8474.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/cohere-translation-commercial-licensing/>)

Author: Meredith Shubel

Published: 2026-09-11T17:50:11Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [moe](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/moe.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [ai-strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-strategy.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [cohere](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cohere.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [mixture-of-experts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mixture-of-experts.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>)

## AI overview

Cohere released North Small Translate 1.0 as open weights under CC BY-NC 4.0, allowing download, evaluation, and study but requiring a commercial agreement for production use. Commercial deployment requires a license and use of Cohere's managed Model Vault platform.

## Source excerpt

This week, Cohere released North Small Translate 1.0 under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: the weights are there to download, The post Cohere's new translation model is open weights -- but not for commercial use appeared first on The New Stack.