Cohere is one of the most well-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, reaching a $5.5 billion valuation As of July. It was co-founded by the author of the “All You Need Is Attention” article, which helped launch the large language model (LLM) revolution.

Cohere, based in Toronto and San Francisco, sells AI to enterprise clients and does not have a viral consumer chatbot. While Antropik was making headlines last month A deal signed with Palantir and AWS to sell AI To advocate for its customers, Palantir is also a Cohere partner, TechCrunch has learned. Cohere's models are already in use at various unnamed Palantir customers, according to information discussed in an interview. Video published by Palantir.

The video is from a presentation made in November 2024. DevCon1Palantir's first developer conference. This indicates that Cohere is "already deployed to Palantir customers," according to Cohere engineer and former Palantir employee Billy Trend.

“So I'm really excited to be working with Palantir, and we're going to give you a lot of details on exactly how we can serve their customers,” Trend said during the presentation.

in videoThe trend mostly stuck to technical details. While he didn't name a specific Palantir customer, Trend mentioned that Cohere's AI was applied to a Palantir customer who had "really tight restrictions" on where it could store its data and wanted to be able to infer Arabic. “It's a great opportunity for Cohere because it's something we excel at,” he said.

Palantir customers will be able to access Cohere's latest AI models through 'computing modules' within Foundry, Trend said. Foundry, one of Palantir's flagship platformsIt is geared more toward business customers than Palantir's other legacy core platform, GothamDesigned for defense and intelligence agencies, Palantir explained. So, while we don't know which organizations are using Cohere through Palantir, this means they could be companies.

Palantir works with all types of large businesses. like airbus. However, it has recently been stated that it has been working closely with US defense and intelligence agencies. publish a manifesto about how to rebuild the defense technology sector.

Cohere launches partnerships with big tech companies like fujitsu but has remained silent on any deal with Palantir, according to its website and announcements.

TechCrunch asked Cohere if it could specify whether its AI is being used for military or intelligence-related use cases and what Cohere's general policy is toward such deployments. Coher declined to comment.

Palantir did not immediately comment. As for OpenAI, it is also used by defense technology, and news broke that it had signed a deal earlier this month. On the sensor.