“I want to be unambiguously clear: Canada is our home and we will always remain headquartered here,” Cohere’s chief AI officer Joelle Pineau posted on X Tuesday. The Toronto-based firm has reportedly held talks about a merger with Heidelberg, Germany-based Aleph Alpha. (The Logic)

Talking point: At a parliamentary committee focused on Canada’s AI sovereignty Monday, Conservative MP Raquel Dancho questioned whether, in light of the Aleph Alpha reports, Cohere was committed to staying Canadian-owned and -headquartered. She cited the $240 million the firm was awarded from the federal compute strategy to buy processing power. Pineau said she was “fully confident that Canada will continue to be the home for a lot of the work that Cohere is doing,” but that it wasn’t her role to comment on the headquarters question. Dancho then posted a clip of the interaction, calling the answer “not definitive.” Pineau’s unambiguous clarity was in response to that. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said last June that selling the firm would be “failure,” and urged founders to resist acquirers and investors who would move their firms out of Canada.