Overview

• Cohere’s large language models and North agent-builder are now hosted on Bell AI Fabric’s six Canadian data centres to ensure all data and infrastructure remain in the country.
• Bell’s Ateko consulting arm will implement Cohere’s tools internally and assist enterprise and government clients in deploying sovereign AI solutions.
• Ottawa’s Strategic Innovation Fund has committed $240 million to provide Cohere with compute capacity at CoreWeave’s Cambridge, Ontario data centre, which is slated to go online next month.
• Under the agreement, Bell becomes Cohere’s primary Canadian compute partner while Cohere serves as Bell’s preferred provider for LLMs and agent-based AI tools.
• The collaboration bolsters Canada’s AI ecosystem by combining domestic infrastructure, public funding and corporate alliances to meet strict data-localization requirements.