@CohereLabs just released 🌿 Tiny Aya: a fully open-source 3B parameter model that speaks 70+ languages 🌍! But there’s a catch:
Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesn’t support tool calling, the key capability that turns frontier models into powerful *agents*. So the real question is:
How hard is it to turn Tiny Aya into an agent?
Turns out… it’s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL. We’re sharing a hands-on example showing how to train Tiny Aya to turn it into a tool-calling agent using TRL, unlocking what could become the first *massively multilingual open agent*.
Finally my first solo preprint is here:) a love letter to the field. Nothing much lol, this is just me trying to finetune my understanding of research behind the recent breakthroughs in reasoning models. It’s a preprint targeting beginners in the field - will eventually make necessary changes later. In the meantime have fun with it:) Download: https://github.com/Jaykef/Jaykef/blob/main/papers/The-Dawn-of-Thinking-Machines.pdf