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Cohere is partnering with Thales Canada to bring its artificial intelligence technology to Royal Canadian Navy fleets, marking one of the Toronto AI company’s first deployments in national defence. Thales will use Cohere’s agentic AI platform to support operation and maintenance contracts for Arctic and offshore patrol ships, joint support ships, and other naval vessels.

Cohere co-founder Ivan Zhang said the partnership represents a “strategic leap” toward secure, sovereign AI. The deal arrives amid heightened government investment in defence and industrial benefits policies. Cohere has raised $1.6 billion USD to date and recently crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.

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Toronto-based artificial intelligence scaleup Cohere has secured $100 million USD in new financing, lifting its valuation to $7 billion. The funds, a second close of last month’s $500 million round, add BDC and Nexxus Capital Management to an investor list that includes AMD, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Inovia, and Radical Ventures.

Cohere is scaling operations across North America, APAC, and EMEA, opening offices in Paris, South Korea, and Montréal. Founded in 2019, the firm develops large language models powering enterprise AI. Cohere has raised $1.6 billion to date, employs 450, and reported $100 million in annualized revenue.

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Cohere is expanding in Ottawa following a federal agreement to explore AI adoption across government departments. The Toronto-based firm is hiring engineers and solutions architects, seeking staff with public sector experience and security clearance, to support pilots of its workplace AI system, North.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has already tested the tool and used Cohere’s Command R+ model in its ParlBrief application. Cohere has also worked with the Communications Security Establishment on data analysis. The company logged 45 federal lobbying contacts this year, underscoring its ambition to become a public sector AI supplier.

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Cohere president Martin Kon is stepping down from his role weeks after the Toronto-based AI company raised US$500 million at a US$6.8-billion valuation. Kon, who joined from YouTube in 2023, will remain on the board and serve as senior advisor, according to Cohere. He helped lead three major funding rounds, securing more than US$1.5 billion.

Cohere recently announced leadership changes, including the appointment of former Meta research head Joelle Pineau as chief AI officer, Francois Chadwick as CFO, and Phil Blunsom as CTO. The company sells large language models and agent systems to major global enterprises.

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Cohere has appointed Joelle Pineau, former Meta VP of AI research and McGill professor, as its first chief AI officer to lead AI strategy across research, product, and policy. Pineau, who co-led development of Meta’s Llama models, left in May after eight years. The hire follows Cohere’s $500M raise at a $6.8B valuation.

CEO Aidan Gomez founded the Toronto-based firm in 2019, focusing on enterprise AI solutions emphasizing privacy and security. Pineau says she aims to deliver practical productivity gains rather than chase AGI timelines. She will be based in Montréal, working with Mila.

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Toronto AI scaleup Cohere has raised $500M USD, boosting its valuation to $6.8B USD. The round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with AMD Ventures, Nvidia, PSP Investments, Salesforce Ventures, and newcomer HOOPP participating.

Cohere also appointed Joelle Pineau, former Meta VP of AI research, as chief AI officer, and Francois Chadwick, ex-Uber acting CFO, as chief financial officer. Pineau will lead research from Montréal, working with Mila. Chadwick’s background spans Uber’s IPO and CFO roles at tech startups. Cohere will use the funds to expand enterprise AI globally.

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Toronto-based Cohere is making its North AI agent-builder widely available, moving beyond early deployments with major clients including RBC, Bell, STC Group, and Ensemble Health Partners.

North combines Cohere’s large language models with search and workflow tools to help employees automate tasks like drafting reports, summarizing requests, or generating job postings. Clients can run North on internal servers or in their own cloud setups, ensuring data privacy. Cohere plans to charge per user rather than per token to boost adoption, positioning North as a single enterprise solution for generative AI-powered productivity.

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Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is opening a Montréal office to deepen ties with Québec’s AI ecosystem. The company, which develops enterprise AI tools and large-language models, plans to triple its current seven-person Montréal team. CEO Aidan Gomez said the hub will help attract talent and strengthen partnerships with institutions such as Mila, the globally recognized AI research institute.

Cohere recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the federal government and received $240 million to build a Canadian AI data centre, reportedly linking to CoreWeave’s new Cambridge facility. Cohere’s expansion reinforces its focus on Canadian AI leadership and multilingual support.

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Toronto-based AI company Cohere is asking a U.S. court to dismiss a copyright lawsuit filed by major publishers including the Toronto Star, Vox Media, and Condé Nast. The media firms accuse Cohere of systematic copyright and trademark infringement, citing outputs from its AI that allegedly reproduce news articles verbatim.

In its defense, Cohere claims plaintiffs manipulated prompts to generate misleading results and “gin up” a legal case. Filed in the Southern District of New York, the case adds to growing legal scrutiny of generative AI. Cohere denies wrongdoing and seeks full dismissal.

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