Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
THE SO WHAT
Apache 2.0 on a 218B-parameter MoE tuned for agents is a direct shot at proprietary orchestration stacks — the constraint on agentic AI shifts from licensing to execution. If you're still waiting on closed vendors for agent backends, you're already behind on building your own control plane.
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