Building State of the Art Open Weights Tool Use - The Command R Family

Explore the development and community impact of Cohere's Command R family of open-weight language models in this 15-minute conference talk from the AI Engineer World's Fair. Learn about the design decisions that make the Command R and R+ models unique and effective for multi-step tool use applications. Discover how the community has responded to these open-weight releases and examine innovative projects built using these models. Understand the journey from initial development through post-training optimization, including the creation of open source user interfaces and the distinction between single-step and multi-step tool use implementations. Gain insights into the technical approaches used to achieve state-of-the-art performance in tool use proficiency and explore the multi-step API capabilities that set these models apart in the landscape of open-weight language models.