Cohere
Canadian enterprise AI company building secure, privately deployable foundation models, retrieval systems and agentic workplace software for businesses and governments.
$7B*2.9%increase
Key stats
- $1.53B
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- 26
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- 35
- 18
- Sep 30, 2026
- Models
Recent releases
Sep 30, 2026Cohere introduces RCP-nDCG@10 retrieval metricResearch paper
Cohere proposed RCP-nDCG@10 as a retrieval-quality measure designed to align more closely with human relevance judgments.
Sep 30, 2026Embed 5 releasedModel release
Cohere launched its fifth-generation frontier embedding models in Pro and Fast tiers.
Sep 25, 2026Compass Cloud enters private betaProduct launch
Cohere opened a managed Compass Cloud private beta for retrieval-heavy and agentic applications.
Sep 16, 2026Cohere and OpenText partner on trusted agentic AIPartnership
Cohere and OpenText announced a partnership for secure agentic AI in government and regulated industries.
Sep 16, 2026Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign definitive agreementAnnouncedAcquisition
The companies signed an agreement to form a transatlantic sovereign-AI provider operating globally as Cohere, with headquarters and R&D in Canada and Germany; closing remained pending.
Sep 10, 2026North Small Translate releasedOpen weights
Cohere released a compact sovereign open-weight machine-translation model optimized for speed and cost.
Aug 27, 2026Parse document-intelligence family introducedModel release
Cohere established Parse as its document-intelligence model family for enterprise files.
Aug 27, 2026Parse 5 launchesModel release
Cohere introduced Parse for enterprise document intelligence across complex multimodal files.
Upcoming
Nothing scheduled.
AI valuation history
$0
$2.5B
$5B
$7.5B
$10B
$900M
Feb 16, 2022
$2.2B
Jun 8, 2023
$5.5B
Jul 22, 2024
$6.8B
Aug 14, 2025
$7B
Sep 24, 2025
202320242025
Models
| Model | Released | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| Embed 5 | Sep 2026 | — |
| North Small Translate | Sep 2026 | Yes |
| Parse 5 | Aug 2026 | — |
| Parse familyFamily | Aug 2026 | — |
| Tiny Aya | Jul 2026 | Yes |
| Cohere Transcribe Arabic | Jul 2026 | Yes |
Platforms & products
| Name | Type | Category | Launched | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Automations | Product | — | Jul 2026 | active |
| North for Pharma | Product | — | May 2026 | active |
| Model Vault | Platform | — | Jan 2026 | active |
| North for Telecoms | Product | — | Jul 2025 | active |
| Compass | Platform | — | Feb 2025 | active |
| North | Platform | — | Feb 2025 | active |
| North for Banking | Product | — | Feb 2025 | active |
| Tool Use | Product | — | Feb 2024 | active |
| Chat API | Product | — | Jan 2023 | active |
| Enterprise Connectors | Product | — | Jan 2023 | active |
| Rerank API | Product | — | Oct 2022 | active |
| Cohere Labs | Platform | — | Jan 2022 | active |
| LLM University | Product | — | Jan 2022 | active |
| Private Deployments | Product | — | Jan 2022 | active |
| Classify API | Product | — | Sep 2021 | active |
| Cohere Platform | Platform | — | Sep 2021 | active |
| Cohere Playground | Product | — | Sep 2021 | active |
| Embed API | Product | — | Sep 2021 | active |
Sources
- Sep 30, 2026 · Cohere introduces RCP-nDCG@10 retrieval metricCohere
- Sep 30, 2026 · Embed 5 releasedCohere
- Sep 25, 2026 · Compass Cloud enters private betaCohere
- Sep 16, 2026 · Cohere and OpenText partner on trusted agentic AICohere
- Sep 16, 2026 · Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign definitive agreementCohere
- Sep 10, 2026 · North Small Translate releasedCohere
- Aug 27, 2026 · Parse document-intelligence family introducedCohere
- Aug 27, 2026 · Parse 5 launchesCohere
- Jul 31, 2026 · Cohere signs EU transparency codeCohere
- Jul 27, 2026 · North Automations launchesCohere
- Jul 14, 2026 · Tiny Aya models showcased for local multilingual AICohere
- Jul 7, 2026 · Cohere Transcribe Arabic releasedCohere
- Jun 9, 2026 · North Small model family begins with Mini CodeCohere
- Jun 9, 2026 · North Mini Code releasedCohere
- May 20, 2026 · Cohere signs strategic MOUs with Indra and Multiverse ComputingCohere
- May 20, 2026 · Command A+ released under Apache 2.0Cohere
- May 19, 2026 · Cohere acquires Reliant AICohere
- Apr 24, 2026 · Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce planned combinationCohere
- Mar 26, 2026 · Transcribe model family introducedCohere
- Mar 26, 2026 · Cohere Transcribe releasedCohere
- Mar 16, 2026 · Cohere advances sovereign AI capabilities with NVIDIACohere
- Mar 4, 2026 · Cohere becomes Aston Martin Aramco F1 generative-AI partnerCohere
- Jan 28, 2026 · Model Vault launchesCohere
- Dec 11, 2025 · Rerank 4 releasedCohere
- Nov 27, 2025 · Cohere expands sovereign-AI partnership with SAPCohere
- Oct 7, 2025 · Cohere launches global Partner ProgramCohere
- Sep 24, 2025 · Cohere adds $100M and reaches approximately $7B valuationCohere
- Sep 24, 2025 · Cohere and AMD expand strategic partnershipCohere
- Aug 28, 2025 · Command A Translate releasedCohere Documentation
- Aug 21, 2025 · Command A Reasoning releasedCohere Documentation
- Aug 14, 2025 · Cohere appoints Francois Chadwick CFOCohere
- Aug 14, 2025 · Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuationCohere
- Aug 6, 2025 · North reaches general availabilityCohere
- Jul 31, 2025 · Command A Vision releasedCohere Documentation
- Jul 28, 2025 · North for Telecoms advances through Bell partnershipCohere
- Jun 9, 2025 · Cohere and UK government announce AI collaborationCohere
- Jun 9, 2025 · Cohere and Canada partner on public-sector AICohere
- Jun 3, 2025 · Cohere appoints Joelle Pineau Chief AI OfficerCohere
- Apr 15, 2025 · Embed 4 releasedCohere
- Mar 13, 2025 · Command A releasedCohere
- Mar 13, 2025 · Command A weights releasedCohere Documentation
- Feb 10, 2025 · North for Banking announced with RBCCohere
- Feb 10, 2025 · Compass debuts inside NorthCohere
- Feb 10, 2025 · North early-access program launchesCohere
- Dec 6, 2024 · Canada commits up to C$240M to Cohere compute projectGovernment of Canada
- Dec 2, 2024 · Rerank 3.5 releasedCohere
- Oct 23, 2024 · Aya Expanse 32B releasedCohere Labs
- Oct 23, 2024 · Aya Expanse 8B releasedCohere Labs
- Aug 30, 2024 · Command R+ August 2024 updateCohere Documentation
- Aug 30, 2024 · Command R August 2024 updateCohere Documentation
- Jul 22, 2024 · Cohere raises $500M Series D at $5.5B valuationReuters
- May 23, 2024 · Aya 23 35B releasedCohere Labs
- May 23, 2024 · Aya 23 8B releasedCohere Labs
- Apr 4, 2024 · Command R+ launches first on Microsoft AzureCohere
- Apr 4, 2024 · Command R+ releasedCohere
- Mar 24, 2024 · Command R weights released for researchCohere
- Mar 24, 2024 · Command R releasedCohere Documentation
- Mar 5, 2024 · Accenture and Cohere partner on enterprise generative AIAccenture
- Feb 20, 2024 · Cohere introduces Tool UseCohere
- Feb 13, 2024 · Aya open-science initiative produces first modelCohere Labs
- Feb 13, 2024 · Aya 101 releasedCohere Labs
- Nov 2, 2023 · Embed 3 releasedCohere
- Nov 1, 2023 · Rerank 3 releasedCohere Documentation
- Jul 18, 2023 · McKinsey and Cohere collaborate on enterprise generative AIMcKinsey & Company
- Jun 13, 2023 · Oracle and Cohere announce generative AI partnershipCohere
- Jun 8, 2023 · Cohere raises $270M Series C at $2.2B valuationCohere
- Mar 1, 2023 · Command model family establishedCohere
- Mar 1, 2023 · Command Light releasedCohere Documentation
- Mar 1, 2023 · Command generation models launchCohere Documentation
- Jan 1, 2023 · Enterprise data connectors introducedCohere Documentation
- Jan 1, 2023 · Cohere Chat API introducedCohere Documentation
- Nov 1, 2022 · Multilingual Embed v2 releasedCohere Documentation
- Oct 31, 2022 · Rerank model family introducedCohere
- Oct 31, 2022 · Rerank API endpoint releasedCohere
- Oct 31, 2022 · Cohere launches Rerank endpointCohere
- Feb 16, 2022 · Cohere raises $125M Series BTechCrunch
- Jan 1, 2022 · Private deployment options expandCohere
- Jan 1, 2022 · Embed model family introducedCohere
- Jan 1, 2022 · LLM University launchesCohere
- Jan 1, 2022 · Cohere For AI research community launchesCohere
- Sep 7, 2021 · Embed API launchesCohere Documentation
- Sep 7, 2021 · Cohere Playground opens to developersCohere
- Sep 7, 2021 · Classify API becomes availableCohere Documentation
- Sep 7, 2021 · Cohere raises $40M Series ACohere / GlobeNewswire
- Sep 7, 2021 · Cohere opens enterprise NLP platform and APIsCohere / GlobeNewswire
- Jan 1, 2019 · Cohere founded in TorontoCohere
* Market cap / valuation. Company values are AI-attributed: the latest market cap or valuation × the share attributed to AI (100% for pure AI companies). Methodology