The Toronto lab founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, one of the eight authors of the Transformer paper, that chose to sell language models to businesses rather than to the public and has spent the hype era being described as 'the enterprise one'. The record's entry for the lab that never had a viral moment and did not appear to want one.
A funding round in August 2025, reported at $500m and a valuation of around $6.8bn, with the Canadian government among the backers. The record notes that this is a large number by any standard except the one set two hours south.
The record notes that Cohere's public statements have been mostly about data privacy, on-premises deployment and Canadian sovereignty, which are not the words that trend.
Someone remembers Gomez being the youngest name on the 2017 paper, an intern at the time. The record notes that all eight authors left Google, and that Cohere was among the first places they went.
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