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In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence, Cohere has emerged as a prominent player. As of July, it has achieved a remarkable $5.5 billion valuation, as previously reported. Cohere's roots lie in the 'Attention is All You Need' paper, which played a crucial role in launching the LLM revolution.

Partnership with Palantir: A Strategic Alliance

Based in Toronto and San Francisco, Cohere focuses on serving the enterprise rather than having a viral consumer chatbot. Last month, Anthropic made headlines with a deal involving Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers. However, TechCrunch has discovered that Palantir is also a partner of Cohere. According to information discussed in a video posted by Palantir, Cohere's models are already in use at various unnamed Palantir customers.The video showcases a presentation from DevCon1 in November 2024, Palantir's first developer conference. Cohere engineer and former Palantir employee Billy Trend stated, "This is why I'm really excited about working with Palantir, and we're going to give you a bunch of details about exactly how we're able to serve their customers."During the presentation, Trend mostly focused on technical details. He did not name specific Palantir customers but mentioned one deployment where a Palantir customer with "really strict constraints" on data storage and the need to perform inference in Arabic is using Cohere's AI. This presents a great opportunity for Cohere as it excels in such areas.Trend also explained that Palantir's customers can access Cohere's latest AI models via 'compute modules' within Foundry. It's important to note that Foundry, one of Palantir's flagship platforms, is more geared towards commercial customers, while Gotham, their older main platform, is designed for defense and intelligence agencies. This implies that the organizations using Cohere through Palantir could be corporations.Palantir works with a wide range of huge enterprises like Airbus and is vocal about its close collaboration with US defense and intelligence agencies, as evidenced by their recent manifesto on rebuilding the defense-tech sector.Cohere has boasted partnerships with major tech companies like Fujitsu but has remained silent about its deal with Palantir upon a review of its website and announcements.TechCrunch reached out to Cohere to inquire about whether its AI is being used for military or intelligence-related use cases and its general policy towards such deployments. However, Cohere declined to comment.Palantir also did not provide an immediate comment. Regarding OpenAI, it is also being used in defense tech, as evidenced by a deal with Anduril earlier this month.