Cohere

Cohere is an enterprise LLM company building the Command generation and agent models, Embed embeddings, and Rerank search models, with a focus on privacy, RAG, and private or on-prem deployment. Its 2026 flagship Command A+ is a Mixture-of-Experts model with vision input and open weights under Apache 2.0. Cohere targets enterprises and governments needing secure, sovereign AI and offers North, an enterprise agent productivity platform.

Cohere focuses on business and sovereign AI rather than consumer chatbots. Its Command family powers generation and agentic tasks, Embed provides multimodal embeddings, and Rerank improves search and RAG relevance. The models emphasize enterprise strengths like retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, multilingual coverage, and the ability to run inside a customer's own cloud or datacenter. As of 2026, the flagship is Command A+, the family's first Mixture-of-Experts model with 218B total and 25B active parameters, added vision input, and open weights under Apache 2.0. The earlier Command A remains a strong dense model with a 256K context window and open weights under a research license, while Command R7B offers a cheap small option. Cohere Labs also publishes open multilingual research models like the Aya family. Cohere sells via API plus private and on-prem deployments, with deep enterprise integrations including SAP, Oracle, and Dell's AI Factory. It is well-capitalized, reaching a roughly $7B valuation in 2025 with Nvidia among backers, and generates most revenue from private deployments in regulated sectors.