# Cohere's North Mini Code Turns Its Enterprise AI Pitch Toward Developers

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/cohere-north-mini-code-open-source-coding-model>
> Published: 2026-06-14 16:13:03+00:00

Cohere, the enterprise AI company founded by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, introduced North Mini Code as its first developer focused coding model. The release is not a detour from Cohere's enterprise strategy. It is a developer market version of the same bet Gomez, Zhang and Frosst have been making since they started Cohere in Toronto in 2019: that customers will pay for AI they can control, run close to their own infrastructure and use without routing every workflow through a clos...