Cohere open-sources coding agent for H100

Cohere has released North Mini Code, an open-source coding agent designed for agentic software engineering tasks. This 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model can run on a single H100 and offers a large context window of 256,000 tokens. It is specifically trained for tasks like architecture mapping, code review, and terminal-based operations, differentiating itself from general-purpose models. While it generates more output tokens than some competitors, potentially increasing costs in high-volume scenarios, its local deployability and Apache 2.0 license offer significant advantages for enterprises seeking cost control and data sovereignty.