Cohere

The Command line is Cohere's core text generation engine, and it now spans several focused models instead of one generalist. Command A is the workhorse at 111 billion parameters with a 256k context window, built for tool use, agents, and RAG. Around it sit Command A Reasoning for step-by-step problems, Command A Vision for images, Command A Translate for 23-language translation, and the smaller Command R7B for cheap, fast jobs.

North is where Cohere moves from raw models to a working product. Teams build reusable agents and automations from plain prompts, give them shared knowledge through libraries, and let them keep context across sessions with memory. A visual builder, prebuilt templates, and live monitoring turn an agent from a demo into something a department can run day to day.

RAG is the thread through most of Cohere's lineup. The model fetches relevant passages from your documents before it answers, which cuts down invented facts and lets replies carry citations. For enterprise work, that grounding is often the difference between a prototype nobody trusts and a tool people rely on.

Cohere offers four ways to run its models: the hosted platform, cloud AI services like Bedrock and Azure, a private cloud VPC, and a fully on-premises install. The on-premises path includes air-gapped setups where machines never touch an outside network. For banks, hospitals, and governments, that option is often the reason Cohere gets the meeting at all.

Command A and Command A Translate both work across 23 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hindi. The models can reply in the user's language or switch output to another on request, and they handle cross-lingual work like answering a question about a document written in a different language.

Embed turns text and images into vectors that power search, classification, and clustering, and Rerank sits in front of an existing search system to reorder results by relevance. Both are drop-in pieces. You keep the search stack you already run and add Cohere where the ranking quality is weakest.

North Admin gives IT teams the levers that large rollouts require. Admins set roles and permissions, decide which models each group can use, and watch token spend in real time. Guardrails filter content and validate responses, while autonomy policies keep agents inside the actions they are cleared to take. Deployments carry SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications.

North connects to the tools a business already runs, including Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Jira, Linear, Notion, and GitHub, with financial data providers such as PitchBook, Crunchbase, and S&P Global on the way. Connectors let agents read and act inside those systems instead of forcing a team to copy data into a new silo.