COHERE reaches an evaluation of $ 6.8 billion as an AMD, NVIDIA and Salesforce Double Down investors

COHERE Thursday announcement that he had collected a overbuilding round of $ 500 million, bringing its valuation to $ 6.8 billion. This is up compared to the evaluation of $ 5.5 billion which he landed just over a year ago when He raised his previous round, also $ 500 million.

Cohere, whose Toronto square, was one of the first manufacturers of LLM Breakout models, founded in 2019 by the co-founder Aidan Gomez, one of the authors of the “Attention is all you need»Document which has become the foundation of modern AI. But he was a dormant link in the wars of the AI model recently, dominated by Openai, Anthropic and Méta.

To this end, he won partnerships with some of the biggest names in corporate technology, notably Oracle, Dell, Bell, Fujitsu, the LG CNS and SAP consulting service, as well as some big business names like RBC and a new investor in this Tour: Healthcare of Ontario Pensiw Plan.

Its press release even includes a jibe, declaring that Cohere “represents a category of security first of the corporate AI which is simply not respected by the models of reused consumers.”

However, as Techcrunch reported, Cohere is not above the frenzy of AI talent poache which has engulfed the other companies of AI. He just caught Longtime meta research chief Joelle Pineau be his chief chief. He also hired a new financial director, François Chadwick, far from his consulting concert in KPMG. He had worked in finance in Uber and as a financial director in Shield AI.

The new round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital. Radical supported companies like Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, as well as names like Hebbia and writer. Inovia is a known Canadian venture capital company (Poolside, NEO4J).

La Ronde included the participation of existing investors, notably AMD Ventures, Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, although, interesting, the company did not appoint Oracle as a participating investor. (We asked Cohere on this subject.)

Oracle Supported cohere in 2023, But the database giant has more recently linked its fortune More closely in OpenaiIn particular as part of the project to build massive data centers known as Stargate.

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