Canadian AI company Cohere has launched North, a new AI agent platform designed for private deployment to address enterprise and government data security concerns. The platform allows organizations to use its AI tools while keeping their data behind their own firewalls.
North can be installed on an organization’s on-premise infrastructure, hybrid clouds, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), or in air-gapped environments, and is designed to run on as few as two GPUs. Cohere states the platform includes security features such as granular access control and agent autonomy policies, and that it meets compliance standards including GDPR, SOC-2, and ISO 27001.
The platform’s core features are chat and search, which allow users to get answers to inquiries, summarize documents, and write marketing copy. It can also create assets like tables, documents, and slideshows. All responses include citations and reasoning chains for verification. The system is powered by a variant of Cohere’s Command family of generative AI models and its Compass search technology. North can connect to existing workplace tools like Gmail, Slack, and Salesforce, and integrate with industry-specific applications.
Cohere, which has raised $970 million at a recent valuation of $5.5 billion, has already piloted North with customers including RBC, Dell, LG, Ensemble Health Partners, and Palantir.
