Cohere has been quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
Cohere is one of the most popular AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, valued at $5.5 billion as of July. As we reported previously. It was co-founded by the author of the “Attention is All You Need” paper that helped launch the LLM revolution.
Cohere, based in Toronto and San Francisco, sells AI to the enterprise and does not have a viral chatbot for the consumer. While Anthropics made headlines last month for A deal it signed with Palantir and AWS to sell AI For defense customers, TechCrunch has learned that Palantir is also a Cohere partner. Cohere models are already in use at several unnamed Palantir customers, according to information discussed in a Video published by Palantir.
The video is for the November 2024 presentation at DEFCON1Palantir’s first developer conference. It shows that Cohere is “already deploying for Palantir customers,” according to remarks by Cohere engineer and former Palantir employee Billy Trend.
“That’s why I’m really excited to be working with Palantir, and we’re going to give you a bunch of details on exactly how we’re going to be able to serve their customers,” Trend said during the presentation.
In the videoThe direction mostly stuck to technical details. Although he didn’t name any specific Palantir customers, Trend mentioned one deployment of Cohere’s AI with a Palantir customer who had “really strict restrictions” on where it could store its data and wanted to be able to reason in Arabic, ” “This is a great opportunity for Cohere, because this is something we excel at,” he said.
Palantir customers can access Cohere’s latest AI models via “compute modules” within Foundry, Trend said. It should be noted that the foundry is one of Palantir’s companies Main platformsis more geared toward commercial customers than Palantir’s other older flagship platform, Gothamwhich is designed for defense and intelligence agencies, Palantir has been prescribed. So, while we don’t know what organizations are using Cohere through Palantir, this means they may be businesses.
Palantir works with all types of large organizations, Like Airbus. But she’s also been vocal about her close work with US defense and intelligence agencies recently Post a statement On how to rebuild the defense technology sector.
Cohere has promoted partnerships with major technology companies Like Fujitsu But it has remained silent about any deals with Palantir, according to a review of its website and advertising.
TechCrunch asked Cohere if it could determine whether its AI is being used in military or intelligence-related use cases, and what Cohere’s general policy is toward these types of deployments. Cowher declined to comment.
Palantir did not immediately comment. As for OpenAI, it is being used by defense technology as well, with news earlier this month that it had struck a deal with… Anduril.
