# Announcing Cohere's Command A Translate Model

We're excited to announce the release of **Command A Translate**, Cohere's first machine translation model. It achieves state-of-the-art performance at producing accurate, fluent translations across 23 languages.

## Key Features

- **23 supported languages**: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, and Persian
- **111 billion parameters** for superior translation quality
- **16K token context length** (8K input + 8K output) for handling longer texts
- **Optimized for deployment** on 1-2 GPUs (A100s/H100s)
- **Secure deployment options** for sensitive data translation

## Getting Started

The model is available immediately through Cohere's Chat API endpoint. You can start translating text with simple prompts or integrate it programmatically into your applications.

```python
from cohere import ClientV2

co = ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR API KEY>")

response = co.chat(
    model="command-a-translate-08-2025",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Translate this text to Spanish: Hello, how are you?",
        }
    ],
)
```

## Availability

Command A Translate (`command-a-translate-08-2025`) is now available for all Cohere users through our standard API endpoints. For enterprise customers, [private deployment](/guides/deployment-options-v2-private-deployment-private-deployment-overview) options are available to ensure maximum security and control over your translation workflows.

For more detailed information about Command A Translate, including technical specifications and implementation examples, visit our [model documentation](/guides/models-the-command-family-of-models-command-a-translate).

## Related pages

- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cohere](../index.md)
- [Cohere API](./cohere-api-index.md)
- [Cohere Labs](./cohere-labs-index.md)
- [Cohere Platform](./cohere-platform-index.md)
- [Cookbooks](./cookbooks-index.md)
- [Deployment Options](./deployment-options-index.md)
- [Embeddings (Vectors, Search, Retrieval)](./embeddings-vectors-search-retrieval-index.md)
- [Get Started](./get-started-index.md)
- [Going to Production](./going-to-production-index.md)

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