Command vs. GPT-J

Overview

Command is Cohere's enterprise model family for agents, retrieval-augmented generation, multilingual work, and private deployment. Command A+ is the current open-weight generation.

Cohere develops enterprise language models with an emphasis on retrieval, citations, multilingual applications, tool use, and data sovereignty. Command A+, released in May 2026, is a 218B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 25B active parameters. It supports text and image input, reasoning, agentic workflows, 48 languages, and private deployment under the Apache 2.0 license.

Initial release: 2021-11-15

Current generation: Command A+

Reference

https://cohere.com/command

Further Reading

• https://cohere.com/blog/command-a-plus

Overview

GPT-J is a model released by EleutherAI shortly after its release of GPTNeo, with the aim of delveoping an open source model with capabilities similar to OpenAI's GPT-3 model. With a larger size than GPTNeo, GPT-J also performs better on various benchmarks.

Initial release: 2021-06-09

Reference

https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6b

Further Reading