COLLABORATOR PARTNEREnterprise language AI,
built for regulated work.
Onyx AI Labs is a Cohere Collaborator partner. We integrate Cohere's enterprise-grade command, embedding, and reranking models into our products — especially where accuracy, auditability, and data control matter. For regulated industries, Cohere's deployment flexibility and security model fit the way we build: inside your boundary, on your terms.
A platform for enterprise language AI
Cohere builds large language models and enterprise AI infrastructure designed for real-world deployment. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst — including a co-author of the original "Attention Is All You Need" paper — Cohere focuses on making language AI useful, secure, and deployable for businesses.
Command Models
Cohere's flagship generative models (Command R and Command R+) are built for enterprise tasks: long-context retrieval, reasoning, tool use, and multi-step workflows. They are designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless without the overhead of massive closed models.
Embed Models
Embed v3 is Cohere's state-of-the-art embedding model family. It powers semantic search, clustering, and classification across 100+ languages — a critical component for our knowledge assistant and regulatory retrieval pipelines.
Rerank Models
Rerank v3 improves retrieval quality by reordering search results based on semantic relevance. It plugs into existing search systems and dramatically improves the precision of retrieval-augmented generation without replacing infrastructure.
The Cohere technologies we deploy
Command R+
Advanced Reasoning & Generation
Cohere's most capable model for complex enterprise tasks. We use it in Legion's deliberation council for structured reasoning, tool use, and long-context synthesis across documents.
Command R
Balanced Enterprise LLM
High-performance model optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and business workflows. Used in Cortex for citation-backed regulatory answers and knowledge queries.
Embed v3
Multilingual Embeddings
Industry-leading embedding model supporting 100+ languages. Indexes regulatory text, case law, policies, and SOPs into dense vector representations for semantic search.
Rerank v3
Result Reordering
Improves retrieval precision by scoring and reordering candidate documents. Critical for compliance use cases where citing the wrong source is worse than citing none.
Tool Use
Function Calling
Native tool-use capabilities let Cohere models call APIs, query databases, and trigger workflows. Powers agentic pipelines in Foundry and Cortex.
Cohere Connect
Private Deployment
Deploy Cohere models in your VPC, private cloud, or on-premises. Aligns with our policy that sensitive data never leaves the customer's boundary.
Multilingual
Global Coverage
Strong performance across English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Supports global compliance programs spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Enterprise Security
Data Controls
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR-ready, with clear data retention policies and contractual guarantees. Fits the governance posture required by banks and insurers.
Onyx products using Cohere
Cohere models appear across our product line where enterprise language AI needs to be accurate, controllable, and privately deployable.
Cortex
Regulatory Intelligence API
Citation-backed compliance answers over 73K+ obligations. Embed v3 indexes regulatory frameworks across languages, Rerank v3 ensures the most relevant citations surface first, and Command R generates verified responses with audit receipts.
Command R · Embed v3 · Rerank v3
Legion
Multi-LLM Deliberation Platform
One of five models in Legion's deliberation council. Command R+ contributes structured reasoning, long-context synthesis, and tool-use capabilities to multi-round debates across Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek.
Command R+ · Tool Use · Reasoning
AI Knowledge Assistant
Services
Turn scattered documents, SOPs, policies, and know-how into a trustworthy internal assistant. Cohere's multilingual embeddings and reranking make it work across global document sets.
Embed v3 · Rerank v3 · Command R
Foundry
Agentic Dev Workspace
Cohere models serve as coding agents and reviewers inside the Foundry workspace. Tool use lets them interact with repositories, issue trackers, and CI/CD systems under human supervision.
Command R · Tool Use · Private Deploy
North & open-weight models
Cohere's open-weight initiative — released under the North brand — puts performant, transparent models directly in our hands. We resell North and can build solutions around Command A, Aya Expanse, and ForAI for clients who need adaptable, self-hostable bases.
Command A
Cohere's open-weight generative model — a capable, efficient base for fine-tuning and domain adaptation. Ideal for clients who want a performant starting point they own and control.
Aya Expanse
Open-weight multilingual model covering 23 languages. Built for global deployment where language coverage cannot be an afterthought — government, multinational compliance, and cross-border operations.
ForAI
Cohere's open-weight model series designed specifically for reasoning and agentic tasks. A strong foundation when the solution needs to plan, decompose, and execute multi-step workflows.
When open-weight fits the brief
Not every deployment needs the managed inference pipeline. Clients with specialized domain data, air-gapped environments, or specific fine-tuning requirements often benefit from starting with an open-weight model and owning the full adaptation stack.
Onyx can take a North model — Command A, Aya Expanse, or ForAI — and build a complete solution around it: domain fine-tuning, retrieval pipeline, safety guardrails, and deployment inside your boundary. You get a purpose-built model on a transparent, auditable base, with Onyx's engineering wrapped around it.
Available through Onyx as a Cohere reseller. We handle licensing, procurement, and integration.
Why Cohere fits how we build
Our clients operate in regulated environments: banks, insurers, compliance functions, and government-adjacent organizations. They cannot ship data to arbitrary APIs or rely on models they cannot audit. Cohere's enterprise posture — private deployment, clear data policies, SOC 2 Type II, and contractual guarantees — matches our requirements.
Cohere also punches above its weight on retrieval-augmented generation. The combination of Embed v3 and Rerank v3 gives us state-of-the-art retrieval quality without a sprawling infrastructure footprint. For compliance use cases, where the right citation matters more than a confident wrong answer, that retrieval precision is a first-class feature.
Deploy enterprise AI on your terms
Want to see how Cohere — managed or open-weight — fits inside your compliance, knowledge, or agentic workflow? Let's build a proof of concept inside your boundary.
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