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Cohere
Enterprise AI company focused on Command language models, Embed, Rerank, and RAG-oriented APIs for business search and assistants.
Last reviewed: 31 July 2026
Quick facts
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Canada
- Ownership
- Private
- Open source
- No
- Enterprise
- Yes
- Flagship model
- Command R+
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Company profile
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Canada
- Founders
- Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst
- CEO
- Aidan Gomez
- Funding
- Private
- Ownership
- Private
- Country
- Canada
- Open source
- No
- Cloud provider
- No
- Website
- https://cohere.com
Products
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