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Cohere is one of the well - known AI startup out of doors of OpenAI and Anthropic , hitting a $ 5.5 billion valuationas of July . It ’s co - founded by an author of the “ Attention Is All You Need ” paper that helped launch the large words framework ( LLM ) revolution .
establish in Toronto and San Francisco , Cohere sells AI to enterprise customers and does n’t have a viral consumer chatbot . While Anthropic made headline last calendar month fora spate it inked with Palantir and AWS to betray AIto defense client , TechCrunch has learned that Palantir is also a Cohere partner . And Cohere ’s models are already in use by various unknown Palantir client , according to information discussed in avideo posted by Palantir .
The video is of a presentation in November 2024 atDevCon1 , Palantir ’s first developer conference . It shows Cohere is “ already deploying to Palantir customers , ” fit in to remark made by Cohere applied scientist and former Palantir employee Billy Trend .
“ This is why I ’m really excited about working with Palantir , and we ’re going to give you a bunch of details about exactly how we ’re able to assist their customers , ” Trend said during the presentation .
In the telecasting , Trend mostly stuck to expert inside information . While he did not name any specific Palantir customer , Trend did cite one deployment of Cohere ’s AI with a Palantir customer that has “ really strict constraint ” on where it can store its data and wants to be able to do inference in Arabic , “ which is a great opportunity for Cohere , because that ’s something we surpass at , ” he said .
Palantir ’s customers can access Cohere ’s latest AI models via “ compute mental faculty ” within Foundry , Trend said . It should be noted that Foundry , one of Palantir’sflagship platforms , is pitch more toward commercial-grade customers versus Palantir ’s other , older main platform , Gotham , which was designed for defense team and intelligence agency agencies , Palantir has described . So while , we do n’t know which organizations are using Cohere through Palantir , this connote it could be bay window .
Palantir works with all sort of Brobdingnagian enterprise , like Airbus . But it is also outspoken about its snug body of work with U.S. defense and news agencies , recentlypublishing a manifestoabout how to rebuild the defense - tech sphere .
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Cohere has brag partnership with major technical school companieslike Fujitsubut has stick around restrained about any deals with Palantir , allot to a review of its internet site and announcements .
TechCrunch postulate Cohere if it could define if its AI is being used for military machine or tidings - associate use case , and what Cohere ’s general insurance is toward these kind of deployments . Cohere refuse to comment .
Palantir did not immediately comment . As for OpenAI , it is being used by defense technical school as well , with news sooner this calendar month that it had penned a deal withAnduril .
