Cohere

Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, Cohere is an artificial intelligence company specializing in natural language processing. The company's mission is to empower developers and enterprises by making cutting-edge NLP technology more accessible. Cohere develops and provides access to its own proprietary large language models via an API, focusing on enterprise-grade solutions that prioritize data privacy, customizability, and deployment flexibility across cloud, virtual private cloud, and on-premise environments. It is considered a major competitor to other AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, with a distinct focus on the enterprise market.