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Cohere Command Models

Definition

Cohere's Command family is designed heavily around enterprise generation, retrieval, tool use and multilingual applications. Cohere's 2026 documentation lists Command A+ as a mixture-of-experts model with text and image input support.

What is Cohere?

Cohere is a Canadian AI company founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst. Gomez was one of the authors of the 2017 Transformer paper. Cohere focuses heavily on enterprise language models and retrieval systems.

What is the Command family?

Command models are Cohere's generation models for enterprise text, retrieval, tool use and multilingual applications. Cohere also develops embedding and reranking models used in search and RAG pipelines.

Why Cohere is enterprise-oriented

Cohere emphasizes private deployment options, regulated industries and integration with business data. Its models are available through managed APIs and cloud platforms, and Cohere technology has been integrated into enterprise software products.

Related terms, defined

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Reference guide and primary sources

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