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Cohere’s New AI Agent Platform, North, Promises to Keep Enterprise Data Secure
Canadian AI firm Cohere has announced the launch of its latest AI agent platform, dubbed North. The company is positioning this innovative solution as a means for large enterprises and governments to securely deploy AI tools while maintaining control over their data.
According to Cohere’s CEO and co-founder Nick Frosst, North’s primary goal is to alleviate concerns about data security that have prevented many organizations from adopting AI agent platforms in the past. “LLMs are only as good as the data they have access to,” Frosst emphasized during a demo of North. “If we want LLMs to be as useful as possible, they have to access that useful data, and that means they need to be deployed in [the customer’s] environment.”
To achieve this goal, Cohere claims that North can run on an organization’s private infrastructure, including their own premises, hybrid clouds, virtual private clouds (VPCs), or even air-gapped environments. This level of flexibility allows companies to maintain complete control over the data used to train and interact with the AI model.
Frosst noted that this approach sets North apart from other AI agent platforms on the market. “We can deploy literally on a GPU in a closet that they might have somewhere,” he explained, highlighting the platform’s unique ability to accommodate even minimal infrastructure requirements.
In addition to its private deployment capabilities, Cohere is touting North’s robust security features. These include granular access control, agent autonomy policies, continuous red-teaming, and third-party security tests, all of which are designed to ensure that North does not have access to sensitive information.
The company also emphasized that North meets international compliance standards such as GDPR, SOC-2, and ISO 27001, further reinforcing its commitment to data security.
Cohere has already piloted North with several prominent customers, including RBC, Dell, LG, Ensemble Health Partners, and Palantir.
Source: techcrunch.com
