Overview

• The agreement sets up collaboration to test Cohere’s large language models and its North platform for internal operations and service delivery across departments.
• Government officials say the MOU includes no financial component, requires open competition for any contracts, and names no specific projects at this stage.
• Ministers present the effort as a way to build Canadian AI commercialization and protect digital sovereignty through secure, domestic deployments.
• Cohere highlights privacy safeguards designed to keep citizen data in Canada, building on a hosting partnership with Bell for sovereign infrastructure.
• The move follows roughly $240 million in prior federal compute support for Cohere and mirrors a similar memorandum signed with the U.K. government in June.