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• Language, Decoded: What if you could code in your own language?

  Quality data for under-resourced languages is hard to acquire. It is even harder to get code in these languages. Through research, it showed that introducing code in training a model has proved to be a well rounded data source to improve performance. How can we utilize non-English code to strengthen the performance of these multilingual models, especially where data scarcity exists? We started with the question:- what if the code you train a language model on was written in a language other than English?

  July 15, 2026 · Rafay Mustafa · 12 min read

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• From Reviewing Words to Building Africa's AI: Our Journey Inside the Cohere Labs Open Science Community

  How a Luganda word-review task became a startup, a Gold Award, and a lesson about what really keeps gates closed for African builders, and what opens them.

  July 14, 2026 · Kato Steven Mubiru and Bakunga Bronson · 6 min read

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• Inside Tiny Aya: What an SAE Sees in a Model Built for 70+ Languages

  We trained and released Sparse Autoencoders on all four Tiny Aya regional variants and asked what an SAE sees inside a model built for 70+ languages: a representational-density gap, a mostly-shared feature basis, and an identity-versus-quality null.

  July 07, 2026 · Farseen Shaikh · 19 min read

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• Adapting Moshi for Low-Resource Speech Translation

  We adapt Kyutai's Moshi architecture for Turkish↔Hindi speech-to-speech translation by replacing the audio-pretrained backbone with Cohere's multilingual TinyAya, and share what worked, what broke, and what we learned.

  July 02, 2026 · Alper Balbay · 28 min read

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• Sinhala Is Not Just Low-Resource: It Is Under-Evaluated

  Sinhala NLP has often been framed as a data-scarcity problem, but the next major step is better evaluation: benchmarks that test real Sinhala, local context, code-mixing, and everyday use.

  July 02, 2026 · Sayuru Bopitiya · 8 min read

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