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I was in more meetings than usual today so I just caught up to the fact that Cohere, the Canadian startup geared co-founded by former Transformer paper author Aidan Gomez toward making generative AI products work easily, powerfully, and securely for enterprises, has released its first reasoning large language model (LLM), Command A Reasoning.
It looks to be a strong release. Benchmarks, technical specs, and early tests suggest the model delivers on flexibility, efficiency, and raw reasoning power.
Customer service, market research, scheduling, data analysis are some of the tasks Cohere says it’s built to handle automatically at scale inside secure enterprise environments.
It is a text-only model, however, but it should be easy enough to hook up to multimodal models and tools. In fact, tool use is one of its primary selling points.
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While it’s open for researchers to use for non-commercial purposes, enterprises will need to pay Cohere to get access and the company doesn’t publicly list its pricing because it says it makes bespoke customization and private deployment.
Cohere was valued at $6.8 billion when it announced its latest funding round of $500 million a week and a day ago.
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