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North (Cohere)

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MODELS · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere releases open-source "Transcribe Arabic" ASR model claiming best open-weight Arabic accuracy

Cohere published Transcribe Arabic, an open-source Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (Apache 2.0) based on its 2B ASR work. Cohere says the model achieves a 25.87 WER on the Hugging Face Arabic ASR leaderboard, outperforming Meta’s OmniASR-LLM-7B and OpenAI’s Whisper Large V3, and was preferred to Whisper in about 96% of human evaluation tests; weights are available on Hugging Face and via the Cohere API/Model Vault.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere partners with University of Toronto to integrate North into campus-wide AI platform

Cohere and the University of Toronto announced a multi-year partnership to integrate Cohere’s privately deployable agentic AI platform, North, as an orchestration layer in U of T’s forthcoming enterprise-wide AI platform. The collaboration will support teaching, research, student services and administration, back the university’s AI Kitchen evaluation environment, and emphasize secure, university-controlled handling of sensitive data.

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