Aya Expanse
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a family of open-weight foundation models for multilingual capabilities; releases an 8B and 32B parameter model, including one of the largest multilingual dataset collections to date, with 513 million examples; the release also includes Aya-101 which the authors claim is the most comprehensive multilingual models covering 101 languages; Aya Expanse 32B outperforms Gemma 2 27B, Mistral 8x22B, and Llama 3.1 70B, a model 2x its size.