Cohere shifts to cloud-agnostic open models

Cohere is pursuing a sustainable approach to scaling AI by decoupling software from infrastructure and selling open-source, cloud-agnostic models that customers deploy on their own compute. Co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez states that this model avoids the massive capital expenditures and deteriorating profit margins facing rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. While this strategy results in slower growth and less total capital raised compared to consumer-facing labs, it preserves healthy financial commitments and balance sheets. Open article →