Embed 5 and Rerank 5 are now live on OpenRouter!
Build faster, smarter retrieval applications with our state-of-the-art models through a single API. Two models, one bill, zero switching platforms.
Available in Pro and Fast tiers.
We're proud to announce the initial close of our Series E, targeting up to CAD $7 billion at a CAD $35.7 billion valuation; marking the largest private financing round in Canadian startup history.
Some great results in here!:
By using Cohere Embed on Model Vault, @ada_cx achieved:
* 77 ms median retrieval latency for faster, more accurate AI voice interactions
* 2.7x greater throughput-per-dollar for offline embedding, increasing cost efficiency
* 4x smaller vector storage footprint with no measurable retrieval degradation
* 90.7% top-10 recall for accurate information retrieval
https://t.co/anwO9zwJtV
We noticed some concerning behaviour in a popular open source model.
It’s either an incidental relic from training or an intentional ‘call home’ mechanism. Either way it’s surprising and highlights the significance of how you choose which models to use.
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: https://t.co/TZSugXi2ZE
Cyber defenders have an unfair advantage. They have all the telemetry, and patching will always be easier than discovery + chaining. It’s not obvious with all the headlines today, but this is a fundamental truth.
Today, this potential isn’t reality. There are meaningful gaps in solutions available for defenders, and many are having to make the difficult tradeoff between securing their systems and exposing their IP and telemetry to a provider that does “zero data-retention” performatively.
With @stanislavfort, Ondrej, and Jaya, we’ll continue to empower defenders with a truly sovereign platform that they can fully trust to secure their most critical systems.
Cohere is absolutely thrilled to welcome Aisle to Cohere. Aisle is the state-of-the-art in defensive cyber, having found 200+ High/Critical CVEs in critical software like curl, FFmpeg, FreeBSD, Wireshark.
Some thoughts below on why this is significant..
https://t.co/8KFvqf0Thp
Cohere is hosting an X Live this Thursday to discuss all things search & retrieval, including our recent model releases, latest research output, and what's planned for the rest of the year.
It's a chance for our community to hear first-hand from Cohere's engineers and ask questions. If it goes well, we'll do more.
Make sure to add it to your calendar: https://t.co/SlwoONH8Nt
The best search and retrieval platform is coming to the cloud. We want you to help test it.
Compass Cloud is currently in private beta for those who want excellent retrieval with less overhead. If you're an enterprise team interested in early access, click below to apply ⬇️
Introducing North 2.
Enterprises have been compromising on agentic AI for years: platforms that aren't scalable, models that aren't sovereign, control without enterprise-grade security.
That ends today, with 15+ new features in our biggest upgrade yet:
Introducing Cohere Embed 5: our new state-of-the-art family of embeddings models.
Get frontier capabilities with Embed 5 Pro or low-latency performance with Embed 5 Fast.