The Toronto-based AI startup’s Embed 4 system works in over 100 languages, and can find information in PDFs, graphs and other visuals, in addition to regular text data. It claims the new product is more accurate than OpenAI’s top embedding model on evaluations for multilingual contexts and use cases in finance, healthcare and manufacturing. (The Logic)
Talking point: Cohere sells its AI tools to large firms and the software developers that make products for them, so its multimodal abilities are focused on uses in the workplace, rather than consumer image generation. “Most businesses don’t need more pictures of cats,” co-founder Nick Frosst said in a recent interview. “They need to have questions answered based on graphs.” Cohere has also focused on making its models perform well in languages like Japanese, Arabic and French. – Murad