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Cohere
AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus
Canada
Enterprise and sovereign specialist. Merging with Aleph Alpha; first close of a Series E of up to C$7B at C$35.7B (29 Oct), with Canada investing.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Command A+
- Enterprise model (May).
- North 2
- Secure agent workspace with cross-session memory (5 Oct); buying AI vulnerability scanner AISLE (letter of intent).
Recent news
- Cohere Model Vault adds DeepSeek, GLM, MiMo, Gemma and gpt-oss modelsCohere now hosts rival open models next to its own.Cohere ↗
- Cohere makes first close of a Series E of up to C$7B at a C$35.7B valuationLed by Schwarz Group with Canada's government investing; the largest sovereign-AI raise yet.The Next Web ↗
- Cohere signs letter of intent to buy AI vulnerability scanner AISLEMoves Cohere into AI security tooling.AI Weekly ↗
- Cohere ships North 2 enterprise agent platformAdds cross-session memory; positions Cohere in enterprise agents.AI Weekly (VentureBeat) ↗
- Cohere signs a definitive merger with Aleph Alpha at a $20B valuationCreates a transatlantic sovereign-AI player; Schwarz Group commits $600M.AI Weekly ↗
- Cohere in talks to raise up to $3B at about $20B valuationNearly triples its 2025 valuation, a bet on sovereign enterprise AIBloomberg ↗
- Command A+ ships under Apache 2.0Cohere opens up its enterprise flagship as competition from open models growsSolidAITech ↗
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