Releases
86 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
September 20266
Sep 30, 2026
Cohere 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, 2026
Embed 5 releasedModel release
Cohere launched its fifth-generation frontier embedding models in Pro and Fast tiers.
Sep 25, 2026
Compass Cloud enters private betaProduct launch
Cohere opened a managed Compass Cloud private beta for retrieval-heavy and agentic applications.
Sep 16, 2026
Cohere and OpenText partner on trusted agentic AIPartnership
Cohere and OpenText announced a partnership for secure agentic AI in government and regulated industries.
Sep 16, 2026
Cohere 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, 2026
North Small Translate releasedOpen weights
Cohere released a compact sovereign open-weight machine-translation model optimized for speed and cost.
August 20262
Aug 27, 2026
Parse document-intelligence family introducedModel release
Cohere established Parse as its document-intelligence model family for enterprise files.
Aug 27, 2026
Parse 5 launchesModel release
Cohere introduced Parse for enterprise document intelligence across complex multimodal files.
July 20264
Jul 31, 2026
Cohere signs EU transparency codePolicy & regulation
Cohere signed the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.
Jul 27, 2026
North Automations launchesProduct launch
Cohere launched governed workflow orchestration in North with branching, approvals, schedules and model routing.
Jul 14, 2026
Tiny Aya models showcased for local multilingual AIOpen weights
Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.
Jul 7, 2026
Cohere Transcribe Arabic releasedOpen weights
Cohere released an open speech-recognition model tailored to Arabic languages and dialects.
June 20262
Jun 9, 2026
North Small model family begins with Mini CodeModel release
Cohere established its compact North Small family with North Mini Code for developer workflows.
Jun 9, 2026
North Mini Code releasedOpen weights
Cohere launched its first compact model built specifically for developer and coding workflows.
May 20263
May 20, 2026
Cohere signs strategic MOUs with Indra and Multiverse ComputingPartnership
Cohere announced agreements to advance sovereign AI deployments with Indra Group and Multiverse Computing.
May 20, 2026
Command A+ released under Apache 2.0Open weights
Cohere released Command A+, a 218B-total/25B-active MoE model for multilingual, multimodal reasoning and agentic work.
May 19, 2026
Cohere acquires Reliant AIAcquisition
Cohere acquired biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI, adding its research team, biomedical datasets and domain technology to North for Pharma.
April 20261
Apr 24, 2026
Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce planned combinationAnnouncedAcquisition
Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.
March 20264
Mar 26, 2026
Transcribe model family introducedModel release
Cohere entered speech recognition with the open Transcribe model family.
Mar 26, 2026
Cohere Transcribe releasedOpen weights
Cohere introduced an open-source speech-recognition model for accurate multilingual transcription.
Mar 16, 2026
Cohere advances sovereign AI capabilities with NVIDIAPartnership
Cohere and NVIDIA expanded technical work on efficient, privately deployable sovereign AI.
Mar 4, 2026
Cohere becomes Aston Martin Aramco F1 generative-AI partnerPartnership
Cohere joined Aston Martin Aramco as official generative-AI partner to support engineering and business innovation.
January 20261
Jan 28, 2026
Model Vault launchesProduct launch
Cohere launched Model Vault for dedicated, fully managed and isolated model inference.
December 20251
Dec 11, 2025
Rerank 4 releasedModel release
Cohere launched Rerank 4, its fourth-generation retrieval model family in Pro and Fast tiers.
November 20251
Nov 27, 2025
Cohere expands sovereign-AI partnership with SAPPartnership
Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.
October 20251
Oct 7, 2025
Cohere launches global Partner ProgramProduct launch
Cohere formalized a tiered program for cloud, consulting and strategic partners deploying enterprise AI.
September 20252
Sep 24, 2025
Cohere adds $100M and reaches approximately $7B valuationFunding round
A second close added $100 million from BDC and Nexxus Capital Management, bringing Cohere's valuation to approximately $7 billion.
Sep 24, 2025
Cohere and AMD expand strategic partnershipPartnership
Cohere expanded work with AMD across model deployment, compute infrastructure and internal use of North.
August 20255
Aug 28, 2025
Command A Translate releasedModel release
Cohere released its first dedicated machine-translation model, supporting 23 languages and private deployments.
Aug 21, 2025
Command A Reasoning releasedModel release
Cohere launched a controllable hybrid reasoning model for complex enterprise agents across 23 languages.
Aug 14, 2025
Cohere appoints Francois Chadwick CFOLeadership change
Cohere announced former Uber executive Francois Chadwick as chief financial officer alongside its funding round.
Aug 14, 2025
Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuationFunding round
Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital co-led a $500 million financing with AMD, NVIDIA, PSP, Salesforce Ventures and HOOPP participating.
Aug 6, 2025
North reaches general availabilityProduct launch
Cohere launched North broadly as its secure, customizable agentic AI platform for enterprises and governments.
July 20252
Jul 31, 2025
Command A Vision releasedModel release
Cohere released its first commercial multimodal Command model for enterprise document, chart, OCR and scene understanding.
Jul 28, 2025
North for Telecoms advances through Bell partnershipProduct launch
Cohere and Bell partnered to deploy sovereign enterprise AI for telecommunications workloads in Canada.
June 20253
Jun 9, 2025
Cohere and UK government announce AI collaborationPartnership
Cohere announced work with the UK government to support secure AI adoption and public-sector productivity.
Jun 9, 2025
Cohere and Canada partner on public-sector AIPartnership
Cohere and the Government of Canada agreed to explore secure generative AI for public-sector operations.
Jun 3, 2025
Cohere appoints Joelle Pineau Chief AI OfficerLeadership change
Former Meta FAIR head Joelle Pineau joined Cohere as Chief AI Officer to lead research and model development.
April 20251
Apr 15, 2025
Embed 4 releasedModel release
Cohere introduced Embed 4 for multimodal retrieval across text, images and complex enterprise documents in more than 100 languages.
March 20252
Mar 13, 2025
Command A releasedModel release
Cohere released the 111B-parameter Command A, optimized for agents, RAG, tool use and multilingual enterprise workloads.
Mar 13, 2025
Command A weights releasedOpen weights
Cohere made Command A weights available for research and private deployment.
February 20253
Feb 10, 2025
North for Banking announced with RBCProduct launch
Cohere and RBC began co-developing North for Banking for secure, regulated financial-services work.
Feb 10, 2025
Compass debuts inside NorthProduct launch
Cohere introduced Compass as North's multimodal search and discovery backbone for governed enterprise data.
Feb 10, 2025
North early-access program launchesProduct launch
Cohere opened early access to North, an all-in-one secure AI workspace combining models, enterprise search and agents.
December 20242
Dec 6, 2024
Canada commits up to C$240M to Cohere compute projectPartnership
The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.
Dec 2, 2024
Rerank 3.5 releasedModel release
Cohere introduced Rerank 3.5 with stronger reasoning and multilingual retrieval over complex enterprise data.
October 20242
Oct 23, 2024
Aya Expanse 32B releasedOpen weights
Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 32B as the larger Aya Expanse multilingual model.
Oct 23, 2024
Aya Expanse 8B releasedOpen weights
Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 8B with improved multilingual generation across 23 languages.
August 20242
Aug 30, 2024
Command R+ August 2024 updateModel update
The August Command R+ release delivered roughly 50% higher throughput and 25% lower latency with the same hardware footprint.
Aug 30, 2024
Command R August 2024 updateModel update
Cohere updated Command R with improved tool decisions, instruction following, structured-data analysis and robustness.

