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Monday, October 5UTC

  1. New
    CohereNorth 2Agents

    Cohere introduces North 2 with shared agents, skills and cost controls

    Cohere introduced North 2 as an enterprise AI platform with shared agents, reusable skills, memory, automations, model choice and administrative cost controls. It describes private deployment options including on premises and air-gapped environments. The announcement does not establish independent performance or universal self-serve access.

    Cohere1 source

  2. New
    CohereCohere and PwC allianceBusiness & Adoption

    Cohere and PwC announce enterprise AI alliance starting in Canada

    Cohere and PwC announced a global alliance launching first in Canada. Their plan combines Cohere North and models with PwC transformation and governance services for enterprise AI deployments. The announcement describes a partnership and intended services, not measured customer outcomes.

    Cohere1 source

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Wednesday, September 30UTC

  1. New
    CohereEmbed 5 Pro / FastModels

    Cohere launches Embed 5 Pro and Fast for searching business documents

    Cohere released two embedding models for retrieval across text, images and multilingual business documents. Pro and Fast share an embedding space, allowing teams to index with Pro and query with either tier without rebuilding the index. The company lists availability through its API and Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry and Amazon SageMaker; its performance comparisons are vendor-reported.

    Cohere1 source

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