Cohere is an AI company founded in 2019, headquartered in Toronto, that builds foundational AI models for enterprise use. The company focuses on developing secure, private models that businesses can trust and deploy, aiming to help organisations improve everyday operations. It has raised nearly $1 billion across multiple funding rounds and employs hundreds of people worldwide.
The company's technical work spans foundational AI models and research. Most of its team comes from a research background, and the company maintains an active research community through Cohere Labs, an initiative that has published over 100 papers and built a network of more than 4,500 researchers.
Cohere positions its purpose as scaling intelligence to serve humanity, with the stated goal of enhancing human capability rather than replacing it. The company builds practical AI solutions intended for real-world business problems, with a particular emphasis on data security and privacy in enterprise deployments.
