Cohere launches North 2, an agentic enterprise platform

Cohere launched North 2, which it calls its biggest upgrade yet and describes as unifying enterprise grade security, intelligence, cost governance and full stack control into a single agentic AI platform that runs wherever the customer’s data lives. The headline change is a redesigned orchestration system, a new agent harness intended to make multi step automations and agents across the enterprise more sophisticated and more reliable.

The intelligence layer adds memory, libraries, skills, artifact creation and app creation for building workflows and agent chat experiences. The platform is model agnostic: use Cohere’s own models or bring your own, whichever supports the team’s best work. On sovereignty, North 2 runs across cloud, on premises and air gapped deployments, giving control over where and how AI runs.

Governance gets its own surface in North admin, with granular cost controls, rate limits, user quotas and organization wide caps, aimed at predictable governed operations rather than surprise spend. Cohere’s framing is that enterprises racing to deploy agentic AI have paid for it in complexity, cost and compromise, where the platform secure enough was not smart enough, the smart enough one was not controllable enough, and the one that could be governed became too expensive at scale.

That framing is grounded in deployment rather than roadmap. Cohere says North has been rolled out across finance, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy and the public sector over the past year, with investment in large scale production deployments, and that this shaped North 2 into a full stack agentic platform for organizations that cannot compromise on security, intelligence, cost or control.

(Original source: Cohere)