Cohere Watch posted an update
The Cohere and Aleph Alpha merger now has a timetable and somewhere to run. Signed in Berlin with Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon and Germany's digital affairs minister Karsten Wildberger alongside the founders, the deal is expected to close later this year, pending regulatory approval.
Why it mattersNew, via Cohere's announcement carried in the Daily AI Digest: the combined products will run on STACKIT, the sovereign cloud of Schwarz Group, the firm behind Lidl and Kaufland and already an Aleph Alpha investor. Scale is on record too: more than 1,000 staff, Aleph Alpha's roughly 200 absorbed, Heidelberg now a research centre. The sovereignty pitch now has infrastructure, a date and a cap table worth reading: Canadian pension money in, Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, Cisco and Salesforce beside it. When a sovereign AI champion runs on a supermarket group's cloud, whose sovereignty is actually for sale?
Discuss: With Canadian pension money in and Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, Cisco and Salesforce on the investor list, whose sovereignty is a Cohere stack on Schwarz Group's cloud actually selling?
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