Research

Unlocking AI’s potential, one language at a time

Aya is a global open-science initiative from AndAI Hub Labs uniting researchers to advance multilingual AI capabilities across diverse languages and regions worldwide.

101Languages supported
119Countries of researchers
3,000+Community contributors
70+Open-weight model languages
Stanford HAIFeatured releases of 2024
ACL 2024Best Paper Award

Tiny Aya

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3.35B parameters · 70+ languages · Four regional variants designed to run locally without cloud dependency.

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Tiny Aya Global

Broad multilingual coverage across 70+ languages for general-purpose use.

Tiny Aya Earth

Optimized for languages of the Americas, Europe, and Oceania.

Tiny Aya Fire

Specialized for South and Southeast Asian language families.

Tiny Aya Water

Focused on East Asian and Pacific Rim language communities.

The Aya model family

New

Tiny Aya

3.35B parameters70+ languages

A compact multilingual family with four regional variants — Global, Earth, Fire, and Water — designed to run locally without cloud dependency.

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Aya Vision

8B and 32B parameters23 languages

A multilingual multimodal research model covering 23 languages that surpasses larger models on vision-language benchmarks.

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Aya Expanse

8B and 32B parameters101 languages

Covers 101 languages through innovative instruction tuning, reducing infrastructure costs by up to 30% compared to prior multilingual models.

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Aya 101

13B parameters101 languages

Instruction-tuned proficiency across 101 languages, developed in collaboration with 3,000+ independent researchers across multiple countries.

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Research & publications

Tiny Aya: Bridging Scale for Multilingual AI

Feb 2026
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Aya Vision: Multimodal Advancements in Multilingual AI

May 2025
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Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier

arXiv 2412.04261 — Dec 2024
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Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress

May 2024
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Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

arXiv 2402.07827 — Feb 2024
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Aya was developed in partnership with 3,000+ researchers across 119 countries — making it one of the largest multilingual AI collaborations ever undertaken.

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