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Cohere

Makes AI models and a work assistant built for businesses.

Type
AI lab
Last shipped
Oct 21, 2026
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Everything Cohere shipped

October 2026

  1. 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%.

  2. New model

    Cohere released Rerank 5 in Pro and Fast tiers, available through the Cohere API, Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry, Amazon SageMaker and North.

  3. Availability

    Cohere opened a private beta of Compass Cloud, its cloud search and retrieval platform, for enterprise teams who apply for early access.

  4. Launch

    Cohere launched North 2, an upgrade to its work assistant with reusable agents, multi-agent orchestration, and agents that keep context across sessions.

  5. 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

  1. 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.

  2. Availability

    Cohere made Model Vault available in Canada, letting customers there run Cohere models privately with single tenancy and auto-scaled workloads.

  3. New feature

    Cohere added Confidential Computing to Model Vault, with NVIDIA GPU support, and opened early access to a limited group of beta customers.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. New model

    Cohere launched Cohere Parse 5, a document parsing model aimed at high-volume enterprise work with low per-page prices.

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