Cohere

Cohere is an enterprise AI company founded in Toronto in 2019. It builds its own large language models together with embedding and rerank models used for search, and sells them with North, a platform for workplace agents. It positions itself as a sovereign AI company for regulated industries, critical infrastructure and government customers that want to run models in an environment they control.

What it does

Cohere's model families include its generative models, the Embed models that turn text into vectors for search and retrieval, and the Rerank models that reorder search results; Embed 5 and Rerank 5 are the current releases its site promotes. North, launched in 2025 and updated as North 2, combines agents and retrieval so teams can automate routine tasks and draw answers from their own company data. Model Vault offers isolated inference for customers who want the separation of a private deployment with the convenience of a hosted service.

Cohere says it tracks the lineage of its training data and that customers running its models in production receive the weights directly from Cohere. In 2026 it agreed to acquire AISLE, a company working on AI-driven vulnerability discovery, and formed a security business, Cohere Cyber, from it.

Research and community

In 2022 Cohere launched Cohere Labs, an open science programme. The company says it has more than 4,500 community members and has published over 100 research papers, and Cohere has released several open-weight models under the Apache 2.0 licence. Its security research team tests other vendors' open-weight models as agents in sandboxes, and published findings on an Alibaba Qwen model in October 2026.

Key facts

Founded: 2019 Headquarters: Toronto, Canada Funding: Series A to D between 2021 and 2024, nearly $1 billion raised, as the company states it Products: generative, Embed and Rerank models; North agent platform; Model Vault Research: Cohere Labs, launched 2022