Cohere model announcements from March 2024 to September 2026, newest first. Compare what changed and follow the official sources.
Dates refer to the linked announcement or release milestone. Previews are labeled in the entries; historical availability and pricing may have changed.
Cohere released Embed 5, a family of multimodal embedding models in Pro and Fast tiers. Both support text and image inputs, more than 100 languages, and a 128K-token context; their shared embedding space lets teams index with Pro and query with either tier.
For buildersTest both tiers on representative text, image-rich documents, and multilingual queries; compare retrieval quality, latency, and index consistency before choosing production roles.
Cohere released Command A for enterprise language and agent workflows.
For buildersEvaluate grounded answers and tool use against internal business documents.
Cohere introduced a larger RAG-oriented model for enterprise workloads.
For buildersCompare answer grounding and tool-use reliability on representative business documents.
Cohere introduced Command R for retrieval-augmented generation in production applications.
For buildersBuild answers around retrieved documents and verify that citations support the claims.