Cohere Highlights Rapid Community Adoption of North Mini Code

Cohere

Jun 13, 2026

Cohere highlights rapid community adoption of North Mini Code two days after its release. Developers have already delivered llama.cpp support via PR #24260, Unsloth GGUF quantizations ranging from 9GB to 61GB, and day-zero MLX integration. The community also built Taskflow, a CLI task manager, and upgraded documentation to support autonomous coding workflows.

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@cohere2d ago

We released North Mini Code, our first open-source coding model, just two days ago. We’re already seeing developers using it to build amazing things ⬇️

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