Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model

Cohere launched North 2, an enterprise AI platform that orchestrates autonomous agents across multi-step workflows, retains context between sessions, and runs on-premises, in the cloud, or fully air-gapped. North 2 is model-agnostic, letting organizations plug in their own models alongside Cohere's Command A+, and includes North Admin for managing token usage, user quotas, and per-agent access rights, with human approval required before agents take critical actions. LG CNS and Bell Cyber are already running North in production, and Cohere is targeting government agencies and regulated industries — the same audience served by Aleph Alpha, which Cohere announced it acquired in April.

Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context across sessions. A revamped orchestration system coordinates agents that tap into shared knowledge libraries and reusable skills while connecting to tools like Slack, SharePoint, and Jira. North 2 also generates presentations, dashboards, and simple apps straight from text prompts in the chat. Companies can run the platform on-premises, in the cloud, or fully air-gapped. North 2 is model-agnostic. Alongside Cohere's own models like Command A+ https://the-decoder.com/cohere-open-sources-its-strongest-model-yet/ , organizations can plug in their own. Admins use "North Admin" to manage token usage, user quotas, and access rights down to individual agents. When agents take critical actions, they request human approval first. On Nvidia's Blackwell https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-blackwell-doubles-ai-training-performance-in-early-benchmarks/ and Hopper hardware, Cohere says its models need fewer tokens. LG CNS and Bell Cyber are already running North in production. Cohere is targeting government agencies and regulated industries that want to keep AI under their own control. That's the same audience Aleph Alpha serves. Cohere announced its acquisition https://the-decoder.com/cohere-takes-over-aleph-alpha-shortly-after-the-german-startup-ousted-its-original-founder/ of the Heidelberg-based company in April. Aleph Alpha recently resurfaced with Kolibri https://the-decoder.com/aleph-alpha-releases-kolibri-an-open-weight-model-that-makes-the-case-for-european-ai-sovereignty/ , a German-English language model. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now Cohere https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-north-2