“Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason
The New Stack Adrian Bridgwater ● Covered by 3 sources
Cohere released North Small Translate, an open-weight mixture-of-experts machine translation model aimed at enterprise deployments. It reports a WMT26 All Languages score of 83.60 for North Small Translate, versus 81.56 for Qwen 3.5 397B A17B and 68.20 for Google Translate. The company positions this as a shift toward smaller, more specialized translation models that can run inside customers’ environments and handle longer, sensitive documents with more control.
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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.
