The Canadian government has partnered with Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Cohere to enhance its AI capabilities, improve operations, and expand on commercial opportunities.
According to the press release, the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Cohere and the government was signed by Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, and Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transportation, Public Works, and Procurement.
Founded in 2019 and based out of Toronto, Cohere is a tech company focusing on security-first enterprise AI. The government of Canada describes Cohere as building “cutting-edge” AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve “real-world business problems.”
Not long ago, Cohere partnered with Canadian telecom giant Bell for a similar usage as the Canadian government. Cohere used its enterprise-grade AI solutions through Bell’s AI Fabric, which includes North, Cohere’s corporate AI platform, for both staff and customers. The agreement also saw Cohere become Bell’s preferred AI infrastructure provider.
Recently, the company has been sued by a group of U.S. media companies and the Toronto Star’s parent company over copyright infringement. In a complaint filed with a New York court, publishers including Condé Nast, McClatchy, Forbes Media, and Guardian News allege that Cohere scraped articles from sites owned by the publishers and used the content to train the large language models powering the company’s AI services.
In May, the Toronto-based company asked the courts to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the publishers “misunderstood” the company’s work, and “deliberately misused” its tools to “manufacture” the case against the tech company.
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Source: Government of Canada
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