Cohere

Cohere is a platform that provides large language models, helping developers and enterprises build high-performance AI products. The platform primarily offers AI-driven search text (multilingual embeddings, neural search, search ranking), categorized text, and generated text services, enabling enterprises to quickly deploy conversational AI chatbots, generative search engines, text summarization, and augmented vector retrieval.

On May 3, Cohere raised $250 million in funding, bringing its current valuation to approximately $2 billion. Investors include Salesforce, Nvidia, and Index Ventures. Cohere’s co-founder, Aidan Gomez, is one of the authors of the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which proposed the Transformer architecture used in large language models such as GPT.

Cohere offers a Playground for users to try out the features; you can visit and give it a shot if you’re interested. Cohere also offers LLM University , a course for learning about large language models, which helps you understand the fundamentals of large language models and their architecture.