Cohere

Serena Ge

@serenaa_ge

Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $17.5 million in funding across a $15M Series A led by Chemistry and a $2.7M Seed to accelerate foundation model progress through providing frontier training data for LLMs. When we first started Datacurve, it came from a simple realization: foundation model progress is limited not just by compute, but by data quality and complexity. The right data unlocks new capabilities, especially in coding, where accuracy and reasoning matter most. We’re now proud to partner with the world’s leading foundation-model labs, providing them with high-quality, complex training data that helps push the boundaries of what AI can do. This is still just the start. Come build the future of technology with us in San Francisco: https://t.co/6vVsjUmj4t Huge thanks to our incredible team and investors who’ve believed in us since day one and beyond: @garrytan at @ycombinator, @1vnzh from @cohere , @Mark_Goldberg_ from @chemistry_fund, @TheDerrickLi from @AforeVC, @forwarddeploy, @SoheilK, and @shyamalanadkat.

Andrew Curran

@AndrewCurran_

Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau away from META, she was their VP of AI research and oversaw FAIR. She is assuming the newly created role of Chief AI Officer at Cohere. https://t.co/xOJ2CI2B3q

Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.

@iScienceLuvr

9 years later, none of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper authors are at Google. Ashish Vaswani - cofounder of Essential AI (recently exited) Noam Shazeer - just moved to OpenAI Niki Parmar - at Anthropic Jakob Uszkoreit - cofounder of Inceptive Llion Jones - cofounder of Sakana AI Aidan Gomez - cofounder of Cohere Lukasz Kaiser - at OpenAI Illia Polosukhin - cofounder of NEAR Protocol

Rittenhouse Research

@RHouseResearch

The pricing on CoreWeave's two latest DDTLs is a pretty good representation of how fickle credit markets can be. The $3.1B "DDTL 5.0" done in May priced at 99.0, S+450, with proceeds funding capex related to CoreWeave's OpenAI and Cohere contracts.. There was $19B of reported demand for this loan.. And it immediately traded up to 102.. The current DDTL in market ("DDTL 5.5") funds capex related to CoreWeave's contracts with Anthropic, Jane Street, and Hudson River Trading.. and is expected to price at 96-97, S+550. Surely loan investors don't believe that Anthropic, Jane Street, and Hudson River Trading pose more credit risk than OpenAI and Cohere..?

Ricardo

@Ric_RTP

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries. The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath: This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR. The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives. AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors. The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now. But the real story is how this happened... On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France. Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government. Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building. It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today. Then Trump accelerated the divorce. January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage. The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset. Europe heard every word of it. On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state. And the response came fast: April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history. Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux. Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law. - Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance - SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure - McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030 None of that money is going to Silicon Valley. The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it. Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law. And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...

Dr. Tomislav Marinovic

@DrTomsLens

Seems OpenAI has now signed Jensen’s letter too. Must say, I’m somewhat disappointed that $NBIS hasn’t signed it, or even shared it. Few companies, if any, benefit from a blossoming open-model ecosystem more than Nebius. Mistral, Black Forest Labs, Cohere, Reflection and Fireworks have all signed it. Unless the company is deep in negotiations with Anthropic or Google, which is pure speculation and mental gymnastics on my part, I just can’t find any reason to justify this. It’s just one damn signature. But as always, things should become clearer with time. (Not investment advice.)

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder & CEO

Co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' transformer paper; co-founded Cohere in 2019.

Nick Frosst

Co-founder

Former Google Brain researcher and Cohere co-founder.

Ivan Zhang

Co-founder

Cohere co-founder who has led engineering since the company's 2019 founding.

Joëlle Pineau

Chief AI Officer

Former VP of AI Research at Meta (head of FAIR) and McGill professor, now leading Cohere’s AI research and product direction as Chief AI Officer.