Cohere

Models & products

Models

CohereCommand A+North Mini Code

Trends

• Open-weight models diversify in architecture, modality, and size
• Countries build sovereign AI stacks to reduce US dependence

Items

1. Sep 16

   Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign $20B combination

   The Canadian and German labs signed a business-combination agreement valued at roughly $20B to form a dual-headquartered transatlantic sovereign-AI provider on Schwarz Group's CLOUD Act-exempt STACKIT cloud, with Schwarz leading Cohere's Series E via a €500M commitment.

2. Aug 27

   Cohere Parse

   A 2.3B-parameter vision-language model that converts PDF, slide, and image pages straight to Markdown with HTML tables, key-value pairs, and bounding boxes, skipping a separate OCR stage, priced at $1.50 per 1,000 pages for high-volume RAG ingestion.

3. Jul 16

   Cohere partners with the University of Toronto

   A multi-year deal embeds Cohere's sovereign, enterprise-grade AI in the university-wide AI platform at U of T.

4. Jul 7

   Cohere Transcribe Arabic

   An Apache-2.0 Arabic speech-to-text model on Cohere's 2B ASR base reaches a 25.87 word error rate, the lowest of any open-source model on the Hugging Face Arabic ASR leaderboard.

5. Jun 9

   Cohere's North Mini Code

   Cohere's first open-source developer model, a 30B/3B-active MoE agentic coder (256K context, Apache 2.0) that runs on a single H100 and scores 33.4 on Artificial Analysis' Coding Index, ahead of several larger open models, at roughly 3x the output tokens.

6. May 20

   Cohere's Command A+

   Cohere's first fully open-source model, a 218B MoE with 25B active under Apache 2.0, runs on two H100s or one B200 via W4A4 quantization and folds the reasoning, vision, translation, and tool-use variants into one artifact across 48 languages.