Cohere is certainly one of the best-known AI startups alongside OpenAI and Anthropic and reached a valuation of $5.5 billion in July. It was co-founded by an writer of the article “Attention Is All You Need,” which helped usher within the Large Language Model (LLM) revolution.
Cohere, based in Toronto and San Francisco, sells AI to enterprise customers and doesn't have a viral consumer chatbot. While Anthropic made headlines last month for striking a take care of Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers, TechCrunch has learned that Palantir can also be a Cohere partner. And Cohere's models are already getting used by various unnamed Palantir customers, based on information discussed in a Video posted by Palantir.
The video is from a presentation in November 2024 DevCon1Palantir's first developer conference. It shows that Cohere is “already getting used by Palantir customers,” based on comments from Cohere engineer and former Palantir worker Billy Trend.
“That's why I'm very excited to be working with Palantir and we'll offer you a variety of details about exactly how we are able to serve their customers,” Trend said throughout the presentation.
In the videoThe trend remained mostly technical details. While he didn't name specific Palantir customers, Trend mentioned a deployment of Cohere's AI with a Palantir customer that has “really strict constraints” on where its data is stored and desires to find a way to make inferences in Arabic, “what is named “It’s a fantastic opportunity for Cohere because that’s where we excel,” he said.
Palantir customers can access Cohere's latest AI models through “compute modules” inside Foundry, Trend said. It must be noted that Foundry, certainly one of Palantirs Flagship platformsis more geared toward business customers than Palantir's other, older most important platform, Gothamwhich was developed for defense and intelligence services, Palantir described. While we don't know which organizations are using Cohere through Palantir, this means they may very well be enterprises.
Palantir works with all forms of large firms, like Airbus. But it has also recently been vocal about its close collaboration with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies publish a manifesto on find out how to rebuild the defense technology sector.
Cohere has touted partnerships with major technology firms like Fujitsu However, the corporate has remained tight-lipped about any dealings with Palantir, based on a review of its website and announcements.
TechCrunch asked Cohere if it could specify whether its AI can be used for military or intelligence use cases and what Cohere's general policy is toward such uses. Cohere declined to comment.
Palantir didn’t immediately comment. As for OpenAI, it is usually utilized in defense technology, with news earlier this month that it had struck a take care of Anduril.
