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  "order": 79,
  "name": "North Mini Code (30B-A3B)",
  "baseTitle": "North Mini Code 30B-A3B",
  "company": "Cohere",
  "country": "Canada",
  "flag": "🇨🇦",
  "date": "2026-06-05",
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  "license": "Apache License 2.0",
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  "kvCacheLevel": "Moderate",
  "summary": "Cohere's compact agentic coding MoE adapts the parallel Cohere2-MoE block to a 30B total, 3B active model.",
  "keyDetail": "Runs attention and MoE in parallel, with RoPE in sliding-window layers, NoPE in global layers, and top-8 routing over 128 experts.",
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      "title": "CohereLabs/North-Mini-Code-1.0"
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    {
      "label": "Tech report",
      "href": "https://huggingface.co/blog/CohereLabs/introducing-north-mini-code",
      "title": null
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        "Agents": 0.2
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      "url": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/north-mini-code"
    }
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