Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding

- Cohere dropped North Mini Code, a 30B MoE model that only wakes up 3B parameters. It’s efficient enough to run on a single H100, which is great news for devs who hate cloud bills and bad at math. With 256K context and Apache 2.0 licensing, it’s built for agentic coding and terminal tasks. While ETH devs argue over roadmaps like toddlers fighting over toys, Cohere is just shipping code that actually works. It beats Devstral Small 2 on throughput, proving you don’t need a data center to be useful. Stop waiting for regulatory approval to build; just download the weights and let the agents do the heavy lifting. The future is open-weight, sovereign, and significantly less bureaucratic than your last tax audit.