North 2: Enterprise AI Without Compromises

This post announces North 2, an evolution of Cohere's agentic AI platform. Key technical contributions include a redesigned agent harness for more sophisticated and reliable multi-step automations, enhanced intelligence through memory, libraries, skills, artifact, and app creation, and model agnosticism. It details the integration of enterprise connectors (Slack, SharePoint, Outlook, Jira, Notion, GitHub, etc.) and planned financial data providers. Security enhancements include flexible deployment options (on-prem, cloud, air-gapped), SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 certifications, autonomy policies, and red-teaming exercises. Granular controls in North Admin are expanded with user/agent-level visibility, token spend monitoring, and efficient token consumption with NVIDIA hardware. The post also highlights the technical benefits of using Cohere models on NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper architectures for reduced token consumption.