Cohere Launches ‘North’ A Private AI Agent Platform for Enterprises Concerned about Data Security
While organizations are keen to adopt generative AI tools to enhance productivity, security remains a roadblock for many businesses as they do so.
Such companies in industries like banking, healthcare and government are concerned about sensitive data getting leaked or getting used for training AI models without consent.
Canadian AI company Cohere has introduced an AI agent platform called North, which is built for private deployment to tackle this.
So major organizations can utilize the organizational technology tools in their own enclosed, secure environments without passing along data to the cloud.
During a product demonstration, Cohere CEO and co-founder Nick Frosst mentioned that “North is designed to be run privately even on a few GPUs in your office.” It is meant to be secure, flexible and truly applicable in real-world workflows.
What Can North Do?
What North is at its core, however, is a chat and search tool powered by Cohere’s own models of AI, including Command and Compass. Here is how the tools assist users with the tasks like:
- Answering customer support queries
- Writing marketing content
- Summarizing meetings
- Making reports, tables, slideshows, etc.
But North differs in that each answer is backed up with citations and a reasoning trail, allowing employees to see how the AI got to a particular answer.
Frosst noted that North is more than just a simple Q&A. “It’s an agent that gets things done,” he said. Reasoning is built for enterprise level and allows for more complex presentation, such as market research and document creation.
