Cohere Releases North Mini Code, Its First Developer-Focused Model

Summary

Cohere introduced North Mini Code, its first developer-focused model: a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 30B total parameters but only ~3B active per token, released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face in BF16 and FP8 weights. It is purpose-built for agentic software-engineering workflows and terminal-based tasks, scoring 33.4 on Artificial Analysis' Coding Index — outperforming several much larger (120B+) models. Cohere trained it with two-stage supervised fine-tuning plus reinforcement