Palantir (PLTR.US) is reportedly working with Cohere to deploy its AI model.

Cohere is one of the most well-known artificial intelligence startups, with a valuation of 5.5 billion dollars as of July, apart from OpenAI and Anthropic. It was co-founded by the authors of the paper "Attention Is All You Need," which helped initiate the Large Language Models (LLM) revolution. The company is reportedly quietly collaborating with Palantir (PLTR.US) to deploy its artificial intelligence models. Based in Toronto and San Francisco, Cohere sells artificial intelligence services to corporate clients. While Palantir and AWS reached an agreement with Anthropic last month for selling artificial intelligence to defense clients, Palantir is also a partner of Cohere. According to information discussed in a video released by Palantir, Cohere's models have been used by many unnamed Palantir clients. The video was a presentation at DevCon1 in November 2024, which was Palantir's first developer conference. Cohere engineer and former Palantir employee Billy Trend said, "This indicates that Cohere has already been providing services to Palantir's clients." Trend mentioned in his speech, "This is why I am very excited to collaborate with Palantir, and we will introduce to you the details of how we provide services to their clients." In the video, Trend focused mainly on technical details. Although he did not mention any specific Palantir clients, Trend did mention a deployment of artificial intelligence by Cohere for a Palantir customer that had "very strict restrictions on data storage location" and wanted to do reasoning in Arabic, "which is a great opportunity for Cohere because that's what we're good at." Trend explained that Palantir's clients can access Cohere's latest artificial intelligence models through the "computational modules" within Foundry. It is worth noting that one of Palantir's flagship platforms, Foundry, is more geared towards commercial clients, while Palantir's other older main platform, Gotham, is designed for defense and intelligence agencies. Therefore, although we do not know which organizations are using Cohere through Palantir, it implies that it may be for enterprises. Palantir collaborates with a variety of large companies, such as Airbus. But it is also openly acknowledging its close cooperation with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, recently releasing a declaration on how to rebuild the defense technology sector. Based on a review of its website and announcements, Cohere has been touting its partnerships with large tech companies like Fujitsu, but remains silent on any deals with Palantir. Media inquiries to Cohere regarding whether its artificial intelligence is used for military or intelligence-related use cases, and what the overall policy of Cohere is for such deployments, were declined by Cohere. Palantir did not immediately comment. As for OpenAI, it is also being used in defense technology, as earlier this month it was reported that OpenAI had signed an agreement with Anduril.