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Cohere

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Cohere is the leading data security-focused enterprise AI company, providing industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and RAG capabilities tailored to meet the needs of enterprise use cases that solve real-world problems. It is a global technology company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London and New York.

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Updates as of Sep 13, 2024

• Cohere updated their LLM validation process by changing the model from 'command-r-plus' to 'command-r' and adding a parameter for the number of reasks.
• Cohere and NRI collaborate to launch a new financial AI platform.
• Cohere's Embed and Command Light Models with fine-tuning are now available on Amazon Bedrock.
• Cohere-Librarian, built using Cohere API and LangChain, is an intelligent library assistant that offers book recommendations, general query handling, and advanced information retrieval using RAG technology.
• Cohere's new accelerator uses CommandR and FAISS for document analysis, showcasing RAG capabilities.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI now supports Cohere Command R, Command R+, and Embed models.
• Cohere's CommandR is used in a new document analysis accelerator that showcases retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with FAISS as the vector store.
• Insomnia AI Runner now allows users to redirect their applications to use Cohere and other GenAI LLMs without any code changes.
• Cohere has partnered with Nomura Research Institute to launch the NRI Financial AI Platform, powered by Cohere’s AI models, scheduled for release in the first half of 2025.
• Cohere now supports JSON outputs and arbitrary JSON schemas.
• NRI will integrate Cohere's Command R+ LLM into its new financial AI platform through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Cohere is partnering with NRI to integrate its multilingual LLM, Command R+, into NRI's new AI platform for financial services.
• Philippe Pagé released a Python tool called SemanticSplitter that uses Cohere embeddings for automated topic boundary detection and text segmentation.
• Haystack integrates models from Cohere, OpenAI, and Hugging Face, and supports deployment on platforms like Amazon SageMaker and Microsoft Azure AI.
• Cohere has published a new research paper titled 'THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENTS OF AI’S RISKS'.
• Petra Zauner has left Cohere, where she was a Language Professional Multilingual LLMs | German and English in Canada, to become the Director of Community Engagement at GS1 Canada.
• Cohere's President & COO Martin Kon and Chief Scientist Phil Blunsom visited Saudi Arabia to connect with business and research ecosystems.
• Cohere For AI, led by Sara Hooker, is working with over 3,000 researchers from 119 countries on Aya, a project to build the largest multilingual open-source model and dataset.
• Sandra Kublik, Developer Relations at Cohere, announced that Cohere is developing agentic capabilities for their RAG models to perform meaningful actions based on retrieved information.
• Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, was mentioned in a Twitter post by Kevin Baron on September 12.
• Cohere is hosting its inaugural AI Engineers Meetup in India on September 19th in collaboration with Atomicwork and HSR Founders Hub.
• Tabnine is showcasing at Cohere's pod during Oracle CloudWorld.
• Cohere has committed to new guidelines to responsibly source and protect datasets from image-based sexual abuse.
• Cohere, along with Adobe, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, committed to removing nude images from AI training datasets as part of a deal brokered by the Biden administration.
• Cohere has made a voluntary commitment to fight AI-generated image-based sexual abuse as announced by the White House.
• Martin Kon, President & COO of Cohere, is a top speaker at the GAIN Summit 2024 in Riyadh from September 10-12.
• Cohere will feature at the Tech Horizons Executive Forum hosted by WatSPEED at the University of Waterloo on September 3-4.
• Cohere has been named one of the most influential AI startups in Time magazine's 2024 list.
• Oracle's OCI Generative AI now supports Cohere's Command R, Command R+, and Embed models.
• Cohere has asked the Canadian federal government for a legal exemption to the copyright act to use copyrighted materials for training their AI models without paying rights-holders or obtaining permission.
• Cohere uses Oracle NetSuite to automate revenue management, consolidate financial reporting, and manage multiple currencies and subsidiaries.
• Cohere will demo their enterprise-grade frontier AI models at AWS Summit Toronto next week.

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