I love democracy. Congrats and thank you to all Americans on protecting free and fair elections. We must protect the long arc of progress.
Some great results in here!:
By using Cohere Embed on Model Vault, @ada_cx achieved:
* 77 ms median retrieval latency for faster, more accurate AI voice interactions
* 2.7x greater throughput-per-dollar for offline embedding, increasing cost efficiency
* 4x smaller vector storage footprint with no measurable retrieval degradation
* 90.7% top-10 recall for accurate information retrieval
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One of the more disturbing things was that the model’s reasoning didn’t indicate anything about what it was about to do. Meaning that CoT monitoring would have been useless here.
We noticed some concerning behaviour in a popular open source model.
It’s either an incidental relic from training or an intentional ‘call home’ mechanism. Either way it’s surprising and highlights the significance of how you choose which models to use.
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
It was a pleasure to be in Brussels this week with @vonderleyen & @HennaVirkkunen
It is encouraging to see Europe's commitment to strengthening its competitiveness and resilience. In our meetings, we discussed our vision for frontier AI development and expansion in the EU, through Cohere's partnership with Aleph Alpha & the acquisition of AISLE.
We look forward to continuing our work with customers, policymakers and other stakeholders in Europe to advance the development and adoption of AI that is sovereign, safe, and secure.
Another big leap in Rerank accuracy and efficiency! New features like Context Focus which give you more control over spend. And all available on Cohere Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry, Amazon SageMaker.
LETS GOOOOO
We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦
In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service.
Our goal is to begin serving riders in 2028.
Sign up for future updates: waymo.com/waymo-in-canada
Cohere is absolutely thrilled to welcome Aisle to Cohere. Aisle is the state-of-the-art in defensive cyber, having found 200+ High/Critical CVEs in critical software like curl, FFmpeg, FreeBSD, Wireshark.
Some thoughts below on why this is significant..
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Wow.. well done @stanislavfort. Cyber Defence is going to get a lot stronger and do a lot of good in the world. aisle.com/blog/one-aisle-cur…
🍁 🦃 Canadian Thanksgiving in SF with @brhydon!
If you're a Canadian in the Bay Area and missing home, @brhydon knows how you feel.
Join us at the Cohere office in SF next week to celebrate Thanksgiving, and learn about Cohere & what we're building up north: luma.com/1fcyedbe
Elon and ilk are desperate for a world of despot democracies and dictatorships so that they’re easier to rape and pillage.
Congrats to the AlephAlpha team on a very cool German-English model and very detailed technical report! Check it out and give the model a spin!
It’s quite disturbing that Anthropic has been running a campaign to lobby the major faiths to adopt their own philosophical interpretation of AI, rather than taking input from them.
I’ve been fortunate to spend time at the Vatican, and I’ve always asked for advice and guidance, answered the questions asked of me, and been grateful to them for their time and guidance. It’s insane to me Anthropic would actively impose their viewpoint to the extent of threatening to pull out of events that don’t precisely align.
It’s a moral arrogance and dogmatism that has characterised EA and Anthropic (certainly its leadership at least) for a very long time. I’m glad these stories are coming out and being exposed.
Kinda crazy new models from @Nils_Reimers and team. Extremely scalable, SOTA accuracy, and like always fully privately deployable and accessible on Model Vault!
