Tier 3 Practical open-weight
What the publisher claims: open-source, open-weight
The one-liner: Same vendor, different license: Cohere 2026 releases are permissive Apache 2.0.
The six questions
weights downloadable, ungated
standard Apache 2.0 grant
deployable with standard tooling
model cards and evaluation results only
Limited to moderate.
No public code repo exists — weights-only on the Hub, so there is no development channel to join.
License
Apache 2.0 (North-Mini-Code-1.0, cohere-transcribe-03-2026, cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026) OSI-approved — license source ↗
What is actually released
- weights
- tokenizer
- model cards
- eval results
Why it matters
Isolates the license variable - the openness of a release is decided by the terms attached, not by the brand.
Sources
Derived from the openness dataset behind But Is It Open? — snapshot 2026-11-07 ↗. Scores are qualitative readings of the cited evidence, not verdicts; tier measures openness, not intelligence.