Cohere is among the best-known AI startups outdoors of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $5.5 billion valuation as of July. It’s co-founded by an writer of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that helped launch the big language mannequin (LLM) revolution.
Based in Toronto and San Francisco, Cohere sells AI to enterprise prospects and doesn’t have a viral shopper chatbot. While Anthropic made headlines final month for a deal it inked with Palantir and AWS to promote AI to protection prospects, TechCrunch has realized that Palantir can also be a Cohere associate. And Cohere’s fashions are already in use at varied unnamed Palantir prospects, in line with information mentioned in a video posted by Palantir.
The video is of a presentation in November 2024 at DevCon1, Palantir’s first developer convention. It reveals Cohere is “already deploying to Palantir prospects,” in line with remarks made by Cohere engineer and former Palantir worker Billy Trend.
“This is why I’m actually enthusiastic about working with Palantir, and we’re going to provide you a bunch of particulars about precisely how we’re capable of serve their prospects,” Trend stated through the presentation.
In the video, Trend largely caught to technical particulars. While he didn’t title any particular Palantir prospects, Trend did point out one deployment of Cohere’s AI with a Palantir buyer that has “actually strict constraints” on the place it will probably retailer its knowledge and needs to have the ability to do inference in Arabic, “which is a superb alternative for Cohere, as a result of that’s one thing we excel at,” he stated.
Palantir’s prospects can entry Cohere’s newest AI fashions by way of “compute modules” inside Foundry, Trend stated. It needs to be famous that Foundry, one in every of Palantir’s flagship platforms, is geared extra towards business prospects versus Palantir’s different, older essential platform, Gotham, which was designed for protection and intelligence businesses, Palantir has described. So whereas, we don’t know which organizations are utilizing Cohere by Palantir, this suggests it may very well be firms.
Palantir works with all types of big enterprises, like Airbus. But it’s also vocal about its shut work with U.S. protection and intelligence businesses, just lately publishing a manifesto about methods to rebuild the defense-tech sector.
Cohere has touted partnerships with main tech firms like Fujitsu however has stayed quiet about any offers with Palantir, in line with a evaluation of its web site and bulletins.
TechCrunch requested Cohere if it might specify if its AI is getting used for army or intelligence-related use instances, and what Cohere’s normal coverage is towards these sorts of deployments. Cohere declined to remark.
Palantir didn’t instantly remark. As for OpenAI, it’s being utilized by protection tech as nicely, with information earlier this month that it had penned a take care of Anduril.
