Cohere completes its AISLE purchase and sets up Cohere Cyber

Cohere completes its AISLE purchase and sets up Cohere Cyber

13 November 2026: Cohere has completed its acquisition of AISLE, a company building autonomous systems that find and fix software vulnerabilities, and is using it to start Cohere Cyber, a security business with Prague as its global centre. In the same announcement it welcomes the team behind cubic, an AI code review platform, to set up a secure coding unit. Cohere gives no price for either.

Not yet independently verified. The completion and the new roles come from Cohere's own post; it gives no price for AISLE and does not say whether cubic was acquired or its team hired. We have not read a statement from AISLE or cubic. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

From letter of intent to completion in a month

Cohere announced a letter of intent to buy AISLE on 15 October (our report on the letter of intent). Its post of 13 November speaks of "the completion of our acquisition of AISLE". The new unit, Cohere Cyber, is meant to help enterprises, governments and critical infrastructure operators build and run AI systems that hold up under attack, which is the selling point of Cohere's whole sovereign AI offer: models and agents a customer can run on its own terms, with control over data, infrastructure and operations.

Cohere says it will make "a substantial long-term investment in Prague", growing AISLE's existing office there and making the city its global centre for AI cybersecurity and autonomous security systems. It does not give a headcount or a figure for the investment.

Who runs what

The post names four people:

• Ondrej Vlcek becomes senior vice president of Cohere Cyber and leads the new business.
• Jaya Baloo, an AISLE co-founder, becomes Cohere's chief information security officer, responsible for security across the company. Cohere announced her appointment a day earlier.
• Stanislav Fort becomes vice president of AI security, joining core model research and training while leading security research.
• Paul Sanglé-Ferrière, founder and chief executive of cubic, comes over with his team to build the secure coding vertical.

Four deals in one year

Cohere says AISLE and cubic bring it to four strategic transactions in 2026. The other two are Aleph Alpha, the German model developer, where Cohere links to a post about signing an agreement, and Reliant AI, bought to add capabilities in biopharma and healthcare. The post does not say whether cubic is an acquisition or a team hire, though counting it among the four suggests the former.

The direction is plain from the list: Cohere is assembling security and vertical capabilities around its models rather than competing on model scale alone, aimed at governments and regulated industries that want to keep AI inside their own walls.

What it means for security buyers

For customers of AISLE's vulnerability discovery work, the change is an owner with its own models and a sales channel into government. For cubic's code review customers, the post says nothing about whether the product stays on sale as it is. Both are questions to put to an account manager before the next renewal.

Our artificial intelligence companies category holds 1,115 firms, and the security end of it, where AI is used to find flaws rather than ship features, is where the larger model makers are now buying.

Sources

• Cohere blog: Cohere Expands Its Sovereign AI Platform with AISLE and cubic, 13 November 2026
• Cohere blog: Cohere to acquire AISLE to advance cyber-resilient sovereign AI (letter of intent), 15 October 2026
• Cohere blog: Welcoming Jaya Baloo as Cohere's First CISO, 12 November 2026