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North (Cohere)

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere launches Compass Cloud as managed private beta

Cohere is offering Compass — its document parsing and retrieval platform for RAG, search, and agent workflows — as a managed cloud product called Compass Cloud, entering a limited private beta while continuing to support self‑hosted deployments for regulated customers. The managed service centralizes ingestion, indexing, embedding, retrieval, reranking, and permissions, and provides connectors (e.g., SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive), an MCP server, and a Python SDK to simplify enterprise deployment and reduce operational overhead.

6.0

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere releases open-source "Transcribe Arabic" ASR model claiming best open-weight Arabic accuracy

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.

8.0

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere partners with University of Toronto to integrate North into campus-wide AI platform

Cohere and the University of Toronto announced a multi-year partnership to integrate Cohere’s privately deployable agentic AI platform, North, as an orchestration layer in U of T’s forthcoming enterprise-wide AI platform. The collaboration will support teaching, research, student services and administration, back the university’s AI Kitchen evaluation environment, and emphasize secure, university-controlled handling of sensitive data.

6.0