Aya Vision 8B

Aya Vision 8B is Cohere for AI's 8-billion-parameter vision-language model, released in March 2025 as the smaller sibling of Aya Vision 32B. It pairs C4AI Command R7B with a SigLIP 2 vision encoder and is trained to understand text and images across 23 languages, covering what Cohere describes as more than half the world's population.

Cohere's internal testing reported it outperforming Qwen2.5-VL 7B, Gemini Flash 1.5 8B, and Llama 3.2 11B Vision on the AyaVisionBench and m-WildVision benchmarks (vendor-developed and vendor-reported). Weights are downloadable on Hugging Face and Kaggle, but under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, so research and academic use is free while commercial use is prohibited.