Cohere

Cohere is a Canadian artificial intelligence company specializing in large language models and AI solutions tailored for regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, the company is headquartered in Toronto, with additional offices in Montreal, New York City, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Seoul. Cohere's mission is to enhance human well-being by empowering businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress that reaches everyone. The company offers a range of AI products, including: - North: An enterprise-grade AI platform designed for immediate impact, enabling businesses to build custom agents, generate documents, and access instant insights grounded in their data. - Compass: An intelligent search and discovery system that helps unlock insights from fragmented data, providing reliable AI outputs grounded in enterprise data. - Command: A family of high-performance generative models facilitating fast, fluid interactions through natural language, providing instant access to information, and supporting 23 languages for global communication. - Transcribe: A speech recognition model that quickly converts audio data into highly accurate text outputs, supporting 14 languages and robust to real-world conversational environments. - Embed: A model for semantic text representation that captures text meaning for accurate document comparison, converts text to vectors for fast, scalable search, and uncovers hidden patterns and relationships in data. - Rerank: A model for relevance-based result refinement that prioritizes the most relevant documents for better user experience, tailors results to individual user needs and preferences, and continuously updates results based on user interactions. In April 2026, Cohere agreed to acquire AI firm Aleph Alpha of Germany, forming a transatlantic AI company valued at around $20 billion. The newly merged entity aims to create a sovereign AI powerhouse to offer secure and regulated AI solutions for sensitive sectors such as finance, defense, healthcare, and the public sector. The company is active and continues to expand its offerings and global presence.