Cohere North, a collaborative agentic AI platform, is generally available following testing by a bevy of large enterprises. Cohere launched Cohere North in January in a move that aims to broaden the company's reach beyond large language models (LLMs).
The availability of Cohere North is part of a larger trend by foundational model companies to surround models with workflows and enterprise use cases. A big selling point of Cohere North is that it can be deployed privately to ensure privacy of enterprise data.
- Cohere launches North, aims to be an AI agent workspace
- Cohere rolls out Embed 4, an enterprise multimodal search model
- The rise of good enough LLMs
Enterprises that have used Cohere North to deploy AI agents include RBC, Dell, LG CNS, Ensemble Health Partners and Second Front. Cohere recently announced a strategic partnership with Bell Canada to provide full-stack sovereign AI solutions for government and enterprise customers across Canada, and to deploy proprietary, secure AI solutions within Bell. That partnership will improve Cohere North.
In addition, Cohere and RBC developed North for Banking, which is a configuration designed for financial services. North has also been deployed withing LGS CNS in South Korea. Dell also includes Cohere North in its Dell AI Factory stack.
Cohere North includes the following:
- Generative and search models.
- Customizable agents.
- Built-in workflow automations.
- Integration with enterprise data across systems and services.
- An architecture that enables Cohere North to run privately with as few as two GPUs.
Features of Cohere North include:
- Chat and search across data repositories and content.
- Custom tools and integrations with Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, Outlook and SharePoint.
- The ability to integrate with any Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
- Asset creation of documents, financial reports and research.
- Automated workflows for processes.
According to Cohere, Cohere North is designed for secure deployments across on-premises infrastructure, hybrid clouds, VPCs and air gapped environments. Cohere is aiming for regulated industries with Cohere North.
Cohere North incudes access controls and permissions, autonomy policies, security testing, system observability, flexible deployment options and compliance with various regulations.
