Tiny Aya Water

Tiny Aya Water is the regional member of the Tiny Aya family that Cohere Labs recommends for European and Asia-Pacific languages. The family's premise is that a single 3.35-billion-parameter model can only stretch so far across seventy languages, so alongside the balanced Global variant the publisher shipped three models each pushed towards a narrower group. Water is the one that matters most to a Polish reader: Polish sits inside its target group, together with the rest of the Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages of Europe and with Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and their neighbours. The body is identical to the rest of the family - an auto-regressive transformer of Cohere's second-generation design, three layers in four using sliding-window attention over 4096 tokens with rotary encoding and every fourth layer using global attention without positional embeddings, in an 8K-token window. What differs is where the alignment effort was spent, so the choice between Water and Global is not a choice between a better and a worse model but between a narrower and a broader one. Access is on the family's terms: CC BY-NC 4.0 with Cohere Labs' acceptable use policy, meaning research use only and no commercial use, and the files sit behind an access request that requires contact details. Official GGUF quantisations followed on 16 February 2026. The download counts are worth noting for what they say about attention rather than quality: by 17 August 2026 Water had 422 safetensors downloads, the fewest of the four instruction-tuned models, yet 41 likes - more than either of its regional siblings.

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