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Cohere announced a public beta of Confidential Computing for its managed inference product Model Vault, running on NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Microsoft Azure confidential computing infrastructure. The feature adds hardware-backed isolation, GPU memory encryption, remote attestation, and an end-to-end encrypted request path so customers can verify the runtime and protect data in use during inference.
Cohere announced Rerank 5 (Pro and Fast), a new generation of reranking models that return passage-level relevance (Context Focus) to reduce LLM token costs and improve retrieval for agentic and enterprise workflows. Rerank 5 is generally available via the Cohere API, Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry, Amazon SageMaker and private deployments; Cohere says Pro leads public benchmarks (ViDoRe V3, nanoMTEB, BRIGHT, BEIR) and Fast offers lower-cost, lower-latency performance; API pricing is listed at $0.05/1M tokens (Pro) and $0.02/1M tokens (Fast).
Cohere published Transcribe Arabic, an open-source Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (Apache 2.0) based on its 2B ASR work. Cohere says the model achieves a 25.87 WER on the Hugging Face Arabic ASR leaderboard, outperforming Meta’s OmniASR-LLM-7B and OpenAI’s Whisper Large V3, and was preferred to Whisper in about 96% of human evaluation tests; weights are available on Hugging Face and via the Cohere API/Model Vault.
Cohere has open-sourced North Mini Code, a mixture-of-experts agentic coding model sized at 30 billion parameters with 3 billion active, released under an Apache 2.0 license. The model — available on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, and Cohere's Model Vault in bf16, fp8 and w4a16 formats and compatible with OpenCode — is optimized for agentic developer workflows and reports a 33.4 score on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, higher throughput (up to 2.8x) and ~30% better inter-token latency versus Devstral Small 2 in Cohere's tests.
Cohere has released Parse, a vision-language document parser optimized for enterprise workloads and available via the Cohere API, Compass search stack, and private single-tenant Model Vault. Cohere positions Parse as cost‑effective ($1.50 per 1,000 pages) with high throughput and stronger price–performance on ParseBench versus several specialized parsers and hyperscaler document services.
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