c4ai-command-r-v01
How much memory it needs, what its licence allows, and whether it fits an office box.

c4ai-command-r-v01 is a language model for chat, drafting and question answering, published by Cohere Labs on Hugging Face on 11 March 2024. It has about 35 billion parameters.

Its card lists the licence as CC BY-NC 4.0. In short, the licence allows non-commercial use only, so an office cannot use it for paid client work without a separate licence. Access on Hugging Face requires accepting the publisher’s terms first.

Hugging Face counted about 97,542 downloads of it in the 30 days before we checked (7 Oct 2026), and 1,123 people have liked it there.

The card lists 10 languages: en, fr, de, es, it, pt, ja, ko, zh, ar (ISO codes as given on the card).

How these figures are worked out: weights = parameters × bits per weight ÷ 8. The KV cache is added for 8,192 tokens of context, plus about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. Treat the totals as planning estimates.

The KV cache could not be computed from the published configuration, so add room for context on top of these totals.

How the verdicts are worked out: on ANVE One, about three quarters of 64 GB of unified memory is available to the model; on ANVE Office and ANVE Office Pro, the model has to fit in the 24 GB on the graphics card, with 64 GB or 128 GB of system memory for everything else. This is arithmetic against the launch specification, not a test. ANVE’s tested default is Qwen 3.8 27B; this model is not yet validated on ANVE.

This is the class ANVE runs by default (27B-class): strong enough for meeting minutes, summaries, drafting and question answering over an office’s own documents, and small enough for one box.

• Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct (36.2B parameters, about 22 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
• Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (32.8B parameters, about 20 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
• DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (32.8B parameters, about 20 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)

No sealed ANVE unit exists; every image of the appliance on this site is a labelled render. The software runs today on a development machine. No customers yet, no certifications, no delivery date, and the final price is not announced.

Reservations are ₹999 in India or US$12 elsewhere, refundable in full until you confirm an order in writing (terms). Offices that cannot use cloud AI can apply to be one of ten design partners.