AI Lab Profile · Canada
Cohere
Cohere is independent enterprise-focused AI lab, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Enterprise and RAG-oriented models; sovereign/private AI; Transformer-lineage founders.
Founded 2019 · Toronto, Canada · cohere.com · Financials: Epoch AI (as of 2026-08-17) · Updated 2026-08-17
Overview
To bring secure, private and customisable large language models to enterprises.
Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez (CEO), Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang; Gomez is a co-author of the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the Transformer.
Flagship AI models
Key models released by Cohere, most recent last. Dates are the public release month where confirmed.
- 2024-04 Command R+Retrieval-augmented-generation model tuned for enterprise workloads
- 2025-03 Command AEfficient enterprise flagship
- 2026-05 Command A+Latest flagship, released under an Apache 2.0 open licence
Funding & financials
Quantitative figures from Epoch AI's Data on AI Companies (CC BY 4.0). Each is the latest dated figure Epoch holds; private labs disclose selectively, so undisclosed values are marked as such — never estimated.
| Total equity funding | Not disclosed | |
| Latest valuation | Not disclosed | |
| Est. annualised revenue | $240m | as of 2025-12-31 |
| Staff | Not disclosed | |
| Active users | Not disclosed | |
| Revenue / employee | Not disclosed |
Key facts
- Focuses on enterprise, data-private and sovereign AI deployments rather than a consumer chatbot.
- Co-founders Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst are former Google Brain researchers; Gomez co-authored the original Transformer paper.
- Reached an approximately USD 7 billion valuation in 2025 with backing from investors including Nvidia, AMD and Salesforce.
- Alongside generative Command models, offers Embed and Rerank models widely used for retrieval systems.
Frequently asked
- When was Cohere founded?
- Cohere was founded in 2019, by Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang. It is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
- What are Cohere's main AI models?
- Cohere's notable models include Command R+, Command A, Command A+. Enterprise and RAG-oriented models; sovereign/private AI; Transformer-lineage founders.
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