Cohere Releases Open-Source Model for Agentic Code Generation

Cohere has introduced North Mini Code, an open-weight model designed specifically for agentic coding workflows. The model features a 30-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with only 3 billion active parameters per token, distributed under an Apache 2.0 license. The key innovation lies in its focus on agentic coding, where the model operates within tool-based loops to solve coding tasks iteratively rather than generating standalone code solutions. This approach demonstrates particular strength in workflow-intensive scenarios compared to alternatives like Gemma 4. Architecturally, North Mini Code employs 128 experts with 8 active per token, integrating interleaved sliding-window and global attention mechanisms. Benchmarks released in June 2026 show competitive performance on traditional code generation tasks, though slightly trailing Qwen3.6 in direct comparisons.