# "Machine translation is still broken for most of the world's languages": Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason

DevFeed: ["Machine translation is still broken for most of the world's languages": Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/machine-translation-is-still-broken-for-most-of-the-world-s-languages-cohere-builds-non-reasoning-for-a-reason-10829.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/cohere-north-translate-sovereignty/>)

Author: Adrian Bridgwater

Published: 2026-09-13T14:21:46Z

Content type: news

Language: en

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

Topics: [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [cohere](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cohere.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [qwen](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/qwen.md>), [gemma4](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gemma4.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

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## AI overview

Cohere's North Small Translate is an open-weight mixture-of-experts machine translation model covering 50 languages. The article discusses its non-reasoning design, sovereign AI positioning, deployment options, efficiency claims, and reported WMT26 benchmark comparisons.

## Source excerpt

Enterprise AI company Cohere announced North Small Translate last week, a mixture-of-experts (MOE) open-weight machine translation model that works across The post "Machine translation is still broken for most of the world's languages": Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason appeared first on The New Stack.