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Cohere North Mini Code 1.0: agentic coder via Ollama
CohereLabs released North Mini Code 1.0 — a 30B coding-focused agent model now available locally via Ollama, with a 256K-token context and built-in tool use.
North Mini Code 1.0 is the first developer-focused model from CohereLabs (Cohere), built specifically for agentic software engineering. Architecture: 30B parameters with 3B active per step (MoE), 256K-token context, up to 64K output tokens. The model supports tool use, terminal commands, multi-agent coordination, and interleaved thinking — reasoning out loud before committing to an answer. On SWE-Bench Verified it scores 67.6, which is competitive for a model that runs on a single machine. Throughput is 2.8x higher than similarly sized coding models. Run locally with: ollama run north-mini-code-1.0.
Why a vibe-coder should care
North Mini Code is Cohere's first model built for developers rather than general use. Via Ollama it runs without a cloud account, API key, or subscription.
How to install
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Install Cohere North Mini Code 1.0 locally: ollama run north-mini-code-1.0 — and show me how to assign it a coding task with tool use
A GPU with 24 GB or more, or a Mac with 32 GB of RAM — the 4-bit GGUF version takes around 18 GB.
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