Talk:Cohere

Updates to Partnership and Key People

Hello. There have been some recent developments I would like to ask the community to consider including in the article.

• To the end of the Partnerships section:

In July 2025, Cohere entered into an agreement with Bell Canada, owned by BCE Inc. to provide AI tools to government and business clients. Bell will use Cohere's technology on its data center infrastructure and offer it to customers as a domestic alternative to U.S. cloud providers, as well as apply Cohere's North platform internally.

• Modify the Funding section to read:

In a 2025 funding round led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, Cohere raised US$500 million and was valued at US$6.8 billion.. Inovia's Patrick Pichette joined the Board of Directors of Cohere.

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Pinging Noxoug1 and Encoded who have both been helpful with article updates in the past. Thanks! LivingInaCloud (talk) 08:31, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

@LivingInaCloud Done i rephrasing the content for clearer structure and standard wikipedia phrasing, Used "positions" instead of direct claims about competitive positioning,made the language more factual and less promotional. Let me know if you have any comments.

Thank you Noxoug1 for your review and implementation. There have been additional new recent hires, that I will request shortly in another ER. Always good to work together. Thanks again, LivingInaCloud (talk) 07:08, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Personnel updates

There have been some personnel changes at Cohere that should be reflected in the article's History section.

• Last sentence of the 4th paragraph:

It was led by Sara Hooker until September 2025, when Joelle Pineau joined the company.

• Inclusion of a new 9th paragraph:

In August 2025, Cohere announced it hired Joelle Pineau for the new position of Chief A.I. Officer and Francois Chadwick, former Uber executive and KPMG US partner, as its first Chief Financial Officer.

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Happy to make these changes if Noxoug1 or others agree. LivingInaCloud (talk) 07:50, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@LivingInaCloud I would propose

Suggested revision: "It was led by Sara Hooker until August 2025, when Joelle Pineau joined the company as Chief AI Officer.

Suggested revision: "In August 2025, Cohere announced the hiring of Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and François Chadwick, a former Uber executive and KPMG US partner, as its first Chief Financial Officer

Ensure the information in both paragraphs is consistent - both should reference the same timeframe and role details for Pineau. Noxoug1 (talk) 09:03, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Noxoug1 for your input and review. I made the update, using concise and consistent language, modifying your suggestion slightly. Thanks again, LivingInaCloud (talk) 08:37, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Funding & investor update

I am grateful to the editing community (Noxoug1, Encoded and others) for continued assistance and attention. Cohere recently had a second close on a 2025 round of funding that should be included in the final paragraph of the existing Funding section:

In September 2025, Cohere was valued at $7 billion following a second close of its earlier funding round with investments from investors including Business Development Bank of Canada and Nexxus Capital Management.

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LivingInaCloud (talk) 10:10, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I read the articles and think you could expand

In September 2025, Cohere announced a second close of its funding round, raising an additional $100 million and increasing its valuation to approximately $7 billion. The new investors included Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Nexxus Capital Management, joining previous backers from the initial $500 million close in August.

What do you think? Noxoug1 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Noxoug1, thanks for taking the time to read those sources and respond here. I added the content using your suggested wording. Appreciate all your help, LivingInaCloud (talk) 08:25, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Newest partnership

Would appreciate the community's assistance in making the following addition to the Partnerships section of this article:

In December 2025, Cohere and Thales Group partnered to integrate AI in the Canadian maritime defense, digital technologies, and naval in-service support. This partnership brings real-time intelligence in operational speed that improves and enhances mission preparedness.

Noxoug1 and Encoded, you've given the go ahead in the past. With your review and approval, I'd be happy to make this addition as well. Thank you. LivingInaCloud (talk) 11:21, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

References

LivingInaCloud (talk) 11:21, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I think this sounds promotional in tone and a bit buzz-wordy.

In December 2025, Cohere and Thales Group partnered to integrate AI in the Canadian maritime defense, digital technologies, and naval in-service support. This partnership brings real-time intelligence in operational speed that improves and enhances mission preparedness.

Orange: Are all three of those needed? They sound like the same thing to me. Perhaps changing it to just "Canadian maritime defense" would be appropriate? Alternatively, if they are substantially different might be good to clarify that.

Blue: Could you add anything onto this that explains how it does that?

Thanks, Encoded  Talk 💬 15:51, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Encoded, thank you for your review and questions; I apologize for the delayed response and hope you are well in the New Year. I'd like to suggest the following alternate text, based on the information in the provided sources:

In December 2025, Cohere and Thales Group entered a partnership to develop navy and maritime-specific AI products that would help defense customers analyze complex naval environments in real time.

I'm happy to insert this content, with the above changes, if you approve. Thanks again, LivingInaCloud (talk) 13:32, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

As per Encoded's message, please provide more context as to HOW the ai products "help defense customers analyze complex naval environments in real time". In the meantime this request is temporarily closed. - Otherwise (Talk?) 00:37, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Not done for now: - Otherwise (Talk?) 00:38, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Product detail and description

Requesting the modification of the second paragraph of the Proudcts section of this article to include additional details. My suggestion is detailed here:

The Cohere platform is Cohere offers several flexible deployment options for its generative and search & retrieval models and North. They are available through API as a managed service, through platforms such as Amazon SageMaker and Google's Vertex AI. It can be used for tasks such as writing copy, moderating content, classifying data, and extracting information. It is cloud agnostic and not tied to a particular cloud service. Alternatively, for enterprises with high security needs it can be deployed on premises and air gapped. The company also offers a dedicated, fully managed SaaS inference platform called Model Vault.

Cohere models and North are used for a variety of enterprise tasks such as writing copy, searching and classifying data, building documents and tables, and automating workflows.

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Noxoug1 would appreciate your thoughts on these modifications? Thank you, LivingInaCloud (talk) 12:29, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

I will be looking at this in more detail later (the pesky real world keeps interfering), but right off the bat I can tell you that "Cohere offers several flexible deployment options for..." violates Wikipedia's policies. See WP:PROMOTIONAL, WP:V and WP:RS. Everything on Wikipedia must be verifiable with independent, third-party sources. If you have multiple independent reviews that mention that Cohere is particularly flexible compared to other similar products, please post them. Even then, Wikipedia is never going to simply say that Coherent is flexible. The best you can hope for is something like "In a review of AI products, Professor Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota At Hoople rated Cohere as being 'very flexible' compared to the NSCA HAL 9000 and the Cyberdyne Systems T-1000." --Guy Macon (talk) 17:23, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Guy Macon for taking a look. I appreciate your feedback about the word "flexible"; could removing that word resolve the promotional tone? Something like "Cohere offers several deployment options..." This is substantiated by both the Venture Beat and E Marketer sources presented above. Looking forward to your comprehensive review and thoughts, LivingInaCloud (talk) 10:30, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I have been thinking about this for a few days, and I just can't get past the fact that your suggested changes don't sound like an article in an encyclopedia. They sound like something halfway between a press release and a writeup in a friendly trade magazine that never says anything bad. See WP:PROMOTION and especially WP:NOTPROMO.

Here is how I suggest that you rewrite it:

Start with the fact that you know what your product does and what the competitors do. Then find sources that talk about those differences. For example, the emarketer source says

"North is a privately deployable agentic platform that lets companies create, manage, and deploy AI agents entirely behind their own firewall. That means no reliance on cloud providers like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) and no external access to sensitive or proprietary company data."

Is this unique? Are you the only company that does this? If so, does any reliable source (see WP:V) verify that claim? Or are you one of many companies that offer products that can be run on a customers own computers?

Please don't focus on the specific question I just asked, but rather focus on how everything on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable and not promotional.

Here is another way to think about it. If someone wants to read about how great Cohere is, they will go to the Cohere website. If they want to know how good it really is they will look for review websites that cover it. But if they want to know what Cohere is and does, they will go to Wikipedia. Take a look at other Wikipedia pages and pay attention to how they cover similar companies and products. Note how the OpenAI page never says that OpenAI offers this or features that.

BTW, I am having doubts about whether Emarketer is a WP:RS. https://www.emarketer.com/advertise/ says "EMARKETER helps clients boost their brand and generate demand alongside the most respected and authoritative content on digital marketing, media and commerce." Is Cohere by any chance one of those clients? --Guy Macon (talk) 18:17, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

It appears that LivingInaCloud, after asking me for help, chose to not respond to the above and just go ahead and edit the article anyway. I would have made that edit if asked -- it is sourced and not promotional. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Guy Macon, I appreciated your detailed response and your instructive and informative insight for my future work on Wikipedia. I took some time to review all of this and have not learned or been made aware of any relationship with Emarketer; other publications have also reviewed and detailed Cohere products.

Either way, it is my understanding that the revenue edit, which was not related to this edit request, was one I could make myself precisely because it is sourced and non-promotional. LivingInaCloud (talk) 09:23, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

WP:COIU does not say that you can add "sourced and non-promotional" material. There is an obvious problem with allowing someone with a COI to decide whether an edit is non-promotional. Let's look at the list at WP:COIU:

Did the edit "remove spam and unambiguous vandalism"? No.

Did the edit "remove unambiguous violations of the biography of living persons policy"? No.

Did the edit "fix spelling, grammatical, or markup errors"? No.

Did the edit "repair broken links"? No.

Did the edit "remove your own COI edits"? No.

Did the edit "add independent reliable sources when another editor has requested them"? No.

According to WP:COIU, Edits not covered by the above should be discussed on the article's talk page. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:31, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

I'd add that, in addition to these limitations for general COI users, the policy for paid COI users is that they are strongly discouraged from editing the article at all (WP:FINANCIALCOI). BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:36, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

New developments

Several new companies have entered partnership agreements with Cohere. How might this information be incorporated into the article, either in the Partnership section or somewhere else?

Aston Martin F1- as reported by Blackbook Motorsport and Sportsmint Media

Saab AB- covered in BetaKit, Aerotime, and Military Embedded

Hanwha Ocean- sourced by Canadian Defence Review, Korea Times, and The Investor

Welcome community input in considering and crafting these content additions. Thank you, LivingInaCloud (talk) 12:32, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

The above seems quite reasonable to me. Our pages for Mistral AI, Anthropic, and OpenAI all talk about partnerships, and it seems like something that someone researching AI vendors would find useful.

LivingInaCloud, please post the exact wording that you think should go into the article here on the talk page, keeping it factual, descriptive and encyclopedia-like. Basically something like what you see at Mistral AI#Partnerships, with dates, and formatted the same way with ref tags so I can just cut and paste it in. If it reads like an encyclopedia entry and not like a press release, I will be happy to add it to the article. As always, I take full responsibility for anything I add to Wikipedia.

Please add in info of the Thales Group partnership mentioned in the section above. In my opinion that request should not have been closed, and we did not hold Cohere to the same standard as we have with other AI vendors' Wikipedia pages. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:15, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you Guy Macon for your swift reply and consideration. Below is what I suggest; I have put the contracts in chronological order.

Hanwha Ocean contracted with Cohere in January 2026 to integrate its generative AI technologies in ship design and procurement processes.

In March 2026, Saab AB announced a partnership with Cohere that utilizes the latter's AI technologies to support the GlobalEye surveillance aircraft.

As of April 2026, Cohere provides generative AI solutions for the Aston Martin F1. Cohere's technologies are applied in the teams' engineering, performance assessments, and operations.

About the Thales partnership from the previous ER, I suggest the following:

In December 2025, Thales Group and Cohere partnered to apply AI systems in naval and maritime defense operations.

In both of the above, I attempted to be as encyclopedic as possible. I'm open to tweaking the language. Thanks again, LivingInaCloud (talk) 16:18, 20 April 2026 (UTC) LivingInaCloud (talk) 16:18, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Looks perfect. Done. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:05, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Guy Macon for your help with this. Appreciate the collaboration, LivingInaCloud (talk) 07:42, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

References

Modifying SAP content

Asking the community to consider modifying the existing 1st sentence of the 4th paragraph of the Partnerships section to add "In November 2025, the SAP partnership was expanded to Europe with the company's adoption of Cohere's North product." The details are covered in this Data Center Dynamics article. Thank you. LivingInaCloud (talk) 08:10, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Done Thank you for the source and proposed phrasing. I've implemented your request with a more neutral point of view that positions Cohere as one of their partners: In November 2025, Cohere's North platform was among the AI offerings integrated into the launch of SAP's European AI Cloud. Let me know if you have any questions, Matthew Yeager (talk) 00:51, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, Matthew Yeager. This is great. LivingInaCloud (talk) 05:07, 28 May 2026 (UTC)