Cohere has announced the release of updated versions of its language models, Command R and Command R+, now available as 'command-r-08-2024' and 'command-r-plus-08-2024'. These models feature significant enhancements in performance, including improved reasoning, coding capabilities, and tool usage. The updates also include a new safety mode, lower latency, and reduced pricing for input and output tokens. The Command R model has 35 billion parameters, while Command R+ boasts 104 billion parameters, both designed to support multilingual tasks across 23 languages. Users can access these models through the Cohere API and playground, as well as platforms like Hugging Face and SageMaker.