IBL News | New York
Canadian AI platform Cohere released an open-source LLM, called Command A+, for enterprise data-sensitive and sovereign environments. Born out of Cohere’s North platform, Command A+ works on two H100S or a single B200 GPU in private deployments.
The software, to be deployed in a VPC, on-premises, or fully air-gapped, is a 200+B parameter model with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities. It seeks to ensure data sovereignty for governments and regulated industries worldwide while upholding the highest security standards.
Nick Frosst, Co‑founder of Cohere, stated, “When only a few big companies control the technology, people have little ability to shape how their AI systems work or evolve. That’s why it’s so important to prioritize sovereignty now and make sure organizations can own their intelligence layer instead of renting it.”
“Command A+ delivers a sovereign, open‑source model built for critical infrastructure that gives people, enterprises, and governments the trust, performance, and efficiency they need to run real‑world systems at scale.”
As a multilingual, it supports 48 languages, including all official EU languages, as reflected in the EU AI Act.
Released with fully open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, Command A+ gives organizations full transparency into model behavior and complete control over deployment.
According to Cohere, key sovereignty features include:
- Zero hidden backdoors: Full visibility into model architecture and behavior
- Total data sovereignty: On-premises and private cloud deployment with no external data transmission
- Regulatory alignment: Control and deployment model designed to enable alignment with evolving global compliance and AI governance requirements
- No vendor lock-in: Predictable costs with no licensing restrictions or forced ecosystem dependencies
Cohere North is one of the many platforms — ibl.ai, the parent company of this news service, is another leading one — responding to the accelerated demand for sovereign AI in large‑scale production environments, as enterprises and public‑sector agencies are prioritizing deployments that give them complete ownership of their data, infrastructure, and model behavior.
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Cohere is a security-first AI enterprise that raised ~$1.6BUSD from strategic tech investors (Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Oracle, Cisco), institutional investors (Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital, PSP Investments, HOOPP, BDC, Nexxus), and AI pioneers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and Raquel Urtasun.
• Command A+ is available on Hugging Face, as well as through Model Vault. It can also be tried for free on Cohere’s Space or with a Cohere API key.
• Platform documentation for detailed model specs, deployment guides, and cookbooks to get started.