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Canadian AI startup Cohere — co-founded by one of the authors of the original Transformer paper that kickstarted the large language model (LLM) revolution back in 2017 — today unveiled Command A, its latest generative AI model designed for enterprise applications.

As the successor to Command-R, which debuted in March 2024, and Command R+ following it, Command A builds on Cohere’s focus on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, and enterprise AI efficiency — especially with regards to compute and the speed at which it serves up answers.

That’s going to make it an attractive option for enterprises looking to gain an AI advantage without breaking the bank, and for applications where prompt responses are needed — such as finance, health, medicine, science, law and more.

With faster speeds, lower hardware requirements, and expanded multilingual capabilities, Command A positions itself as a strong alternative to models such as