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Removed July 31, 2025 release entry for Command A Vision model; added August 27, 2026 release entry for Cohere Parse model.
July 31, 2025
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July 31, 2025
July 31, 2025
ANNOUNCING COHERE'S COMMAND A VISION MODEL
We're excited to announce the release of Command A Vision, Cohere's first commercial model capable of understanding and interpreting visual data alongside text.
August 27, 2026
August 27, 2026
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MEET COHERE PARSE
Today we are releasing Cohere Parse.
Parse (model ID: parse-v5.0) turns complex documents into clean, structured Markdown ready for downstream AI workflows.
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* Getting Started
* Availability
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* Getting Started
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- * Key Features
- * What You Can Do
- * 💻 Getting Started
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August 21, 2025
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+MEET COHERE PARSE
-July 31, 2025
+Today we are releasing Cohere Parse.
-July 31, 2025
+Parse (model ID: parse-v5.0) turns complex documents into clean, structured Markdown ready for downstream AI workflows. The 2.3B-parameter multimodal model extracts text in reading order, tables, lists, forms, images and captions, page boundaries, and visual element locations.
+Outputs include Markdown/HTML content, HTML-formatted tables, bounding boxes, and image descriptions — preserving both document structure and layout for easier rendering and processing.
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+Key specs: 8K context window · ~4.6GB model size · Markdown output
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+AVAILABILITY
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+Cohere Parse is available through the Parse API, as well as Microsoft Foundry and AWS SageMaker. For single-tenant deployment, Parse is also available in Model Vault.
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+For more details, see the model documentation.
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MEET COHERE TRANSCRIBE ARABIC
Today we are releasing Cohere Transcribe Arabic.
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1from cohere import ClientV223co = ClientV2("<YOUR_API_KEY>")45prompt = """6Alice has 3 brothers and she also has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Alice's brother have?7"""89response = co.chat(10 model="command-a-reasoning-08-2025",11 messages=[12 {13 "role": "user",14 "content": prompt,15 }16 ],17)1819for content in response.message.content:20 if content.type == "thinking":21 print("Thinking:", content.thinking)2223 if content.type == "text":24 print("Response:", content.text)
Customization Options
-You can enable and disable thinking capabilities using the thinking parameter, and steer the model’s output with a flexible user-controlled thinking budget; for more details on token budgets, advanced configurations, and best practices, refer to our dedicated Reasoning documentation.
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-ANNOUNCING COHERE'S COMMAND A VISION MODEL
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-We’re excited to announce the release of Command A Vision, Cohere’s first commercial model capable of understanding and interpreting visual data alongside text. This addition to our Command family brings enterprise-grade vision capabilities to your applications with the same familiar Command API interface.
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-KEY FEATURES
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-MULTIMODAL CAPABILITIES
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- * Text + Image Processing: Combine text prompts with image inputs
- * Enterprise-Focused Use Cases: Optimized for business applications like document analysis, chart interpretation, and OCR
- * Multiple Languages: Officially supports English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Spanish
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-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
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- * Model Name: command-a-vision-07-2025
- * Context Length: 128K tokens
- * Maximum Output: 8K tokens
- * Image Support: Up to 20 images per request (or 20MB total)
- * API Endpoint: Chat API
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-WHAT YOU CAN DO
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-Command A Vision excels in enterprise use cases including:
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- * 📊 Chart & Graph Analysis: Extract insights from complex visualizations
- * 📋 Table Understanding: Parse and interpret data tables within images
- * 📄 Document OCR: Optical character recognition with natural language processing
- * 🌐 Image Processing for Multiple Languages: Handle text in images across multiple languages
- * 🔍 Scene Analysis: Identify and describe objects within images
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-💻 GETTING STARTED
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-The API structure is identical to our existing Command models, making integration straightforward:
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-1import cohere23co = cohere.Client("your-api-key")45response = co.chat(6 model="command-a-vision-07-2025",7 messages=[8 {9 "role": "user",10 "content": [11 {12 "type": "text",13 "text": "Analyze this chart and extract the key data points",14 },15 {16 "type": "image_url",17 "image_url": {"url": "your-image-url"},18 },19 ],20 }21 ],22)
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-There’s much more to be said about working with images, various limitations, and best practices, which you can find in our dedicated Command A Vision and Image Inputs documents.
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+You can enable and disable thinking capabilities using the thinking parameter, and steer the model’s output with a flexible user-controlled thinking budget; for more details on token budgets, advanced configurations, and best practices, refer to our dedicated Reasoning documentation.
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