Cohere
Makes AI models and a work assistant built for businesses.
- Type
- AI lab
- Last shipped
- Oct 21, 2026
Everything Cohere shipped
October 2026
- New feature
Cohere added an opt-in Context Focus feature to Rerank 5 that returns precise passages with relevance scores, cutting token use by up to 41%.
- New model
Cohere released Rerank 5 in Pro and Fast tiers, available through the Cohere API, Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry, Amazon SageMaker and North.
- Availability
Cohere opened a private beta of Compass Cloud, its cloud search and retrieval platform, for enterprise teams who apply for early access.
- Launch
Cohere launched North 2, an upgrade to its work assistant with reusable agents, multi-agent orchestration, and agents that keep context across sessions.
- New model
Cohere introduced North Small Translate, an open-weights machine translation model it says is the best in the world under 1T parameters.
September 2026
- New model
Cohere released Embed 5, a family of embeddings models with a Pro version for top retrieval quality and a Fast version for low latency.
- Availability
Cohere made Model Vault available in Canada, letting customers there run Cohere models privately with single tenancy and auto-scaled workloads.
- New feature
Cohere added Confidential Computing to Model Vault, with NVIDIA GPU support, and opened early access to a limited group of beta customers.
- New model
Cohere released North Small Translate, an open translation model covering over 50 languages, with weights on Hugging Face under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
- Launch
Cohere released an open-source serving system built around a decode megakernel for North Mini Code, running up to 1.58x faster than vLLM.
August 2026
- Availability
Cohere made Parse 5 available through its API, Model Vault, AWS SageMaker and Microsoft Foundry, a free HuggingFace Space, and to North and Compass users.
- New model
Cohere released Parse 5, a model that turns documents with text, tables, forms and images into clean machine-readable output with bounding boxes.
- New model
Cohere launched Cohere Parse 5, a document parsing model aimed at high-volume enterprise work with low per-page prices.
