“Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason

The New Stack · 1 month ago · 7 ● 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.