Cohere launches North 2 agentic enterprise AI platform
Cohere released North 2, described as its biggest upgrade yet. The platform unifies enterprise-grade security, intelligence, cost governance, and full-stack control into a single agentic AI platform that runs wherever a customer's data lives, according to Cohere's blog announcement.
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