Command A: An Enterprise-Ready Large Language Model
Team Cohere, Aakanksha, Arash Ahmadian, Marwan Ahmed, Jay Alammar, Yazeed Alnumay, Sophia Althammer, Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Viraat Aryabumi, Dennis Aumiller, Raphaël Avalos, Zahara Aviv, Sammie Bae, Saurabh Baji, Alexandre Barbet, Max Bartolo, Björn Bebensee, Neeral Beladia, Walter Beller-Morales, Alexandre Bérard, Andrew Berneshawi, Anna Bialas
2025-04-02
Summary
This paper introduces Command A, a powerful AI model designed for business tasks, capable in multiple languages and optimized for acting as an agent.
What's the problem?
Businesses need AI models that can handle complex tasks, understand different languages, and automate processes.
What's the solution?
The researchers created Command A, a model that excels at understanding and automating business processes using techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and tool use.
Why it matters?
This work matters because it can help businesses automate tasks, improve efficiency, and work with global customers.
Abstract
In this report we describe the development of Command A, a powerful large language model purpose-built to excel at real-world enterprise use cases. Command A is an agent-optimised and multilingual-capable model, with support for 23 languages of global business, and a novel hybrid architecture balancing efficiency with top of the range performance. It offers best-in-class Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities with grounding and tool use to automate sophisticated business processes. These abilities are achieved through a decentralised training approach, including self-refinement algorithms and model merging techniques. We also include results for Command R7B which shares capability and architectural similarities to Command A. Weights for both models have been released for research purposes. This technical report details our original training pipeline and presents an extensive evaluation of our models across a suite of enterprise-relevant tasks and public benchmarks, demonstrating excellent performance and efficiency.