north-mini-code

Cohere North Mini Code: Open-Weight Coding Models Are Now Competing on Self-Hostability and License Cleanliness, Not Parameter Count

Cohere, a company known for closed enterprise models, ships its first developer-facing agentic coding model: a 30B MoE (3B active) under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single H100. The 33.4 Coding Index isn't the story. The bet on sovereign self-hosting is.