Cohere

> About

Enterprise LLM company. Trains on scraped data, competes with OpenAI for business customers.

Website

https://cohere.com

CEO

Aidan Gomez

Founded

2019

Valuation

$2.2B+

> Founders

Aidan GomezNick FrosstIvan Zhang

> Products & Services

Cohere LLMCommand models

> Layoffs

20 employees5%

Internal realignment after $500M funding round, ensuring right personnel to remain competitive

Source

> Controversies

Lawsuit from major news organizations alleging massive copyright infringement by using articles without permission to train AI models[1]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. News orgs accuse AI firm of stealing articles(2025-02)

AI generated fabricated articles attributed to publishers, damaging credibility and brand reputation[2]

Controversy 2 Sources:

  1. News orgs accuse AI firm of stealing articles(2025-02)

> Tags

llmchatbotdata scrapingbillionaire owned