加拿大政府将在Cohere取得股权，加入由德国施瓦茨集团领投、目标规模达70亿美元的融资轮，这家总部位于多伦多的AI实验室周四表示。
The Canadian government is taking an equity stake in Cohere, joining a funding round led by Germany's Schwarz Group targeting $7 billion for the Toronto-based AI lab, Cohere said on Thursday.
该轮融资将使Cohere估值约为360亿美元。施瓦茨集团拥有利德和考夫兰零售连锁，4月承诺投资7.8亿美元领投该轮，作为Cohere与德国AI开发商Aleph Alpha合并的一部分。
The round would value Cohere at about $36 billion. Schwarz, which owns the Lidl and Kaufland retail chains, pledged $780 million to lead the round in April as part of Cohere's merger with the German AI developer Aleph Alpha.
Cohere表示，资金将用于模型开发、面向受监管行业的产品以及计算基础设施。
Cohere said the money will fund model development, products for regulated industries and computing infrastructure.
总理马克·卡尼周四在欢迎欧盟领导人来蒙特利尔参加旨在建立更紧密关系的峰会时宣布了这一消息。
Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement Thursday as he welcomed European Union leaders to Montreal for a summit aimed at forging closer ties.
他说，渥太华将向Cohere投资最高16亿加元。他表示，其他投资者包括英伟达和BCE的贝尔加拿大子公司。
He said Ottawa would invest up to $1.6 billion in Cohere. Other investors included Nvidia and BCE's Bell Canada subsidiary, he said.
“Cohere将保持加拿大公司身份，为我们的工人和企业创造更多机会。其注册地和总部将继续留在这里，”他在讲话中表示。
"Cohere will stay Canadian, creating more opportunities for our workers and businesses. Its incorporation and headquarters will remain here," he said in a speech.
公司计划到2030年投资17亿美元建设新基础设施 卡尼表示，加拿大不会等待人工智能的未来由加拿大人不认识或不信任的人在别处决定。
Company to invest $1.7B in new infrastructure by 2030 Carney said Canada won't wait for the future of artificial intelligence to be decided elsewhere by those Canadians don't know or trust.
他补充说，Cohere将在2030年前至少在加拿大投资17亿美元用于新的计算基础设施。
Cohere will invest at least $1.7 billion in new computing infrastructure in Canada by 2030, he added.
Cohere首席执行官艾丹·戈麦斯称政府的投资“是一项巨大的荣誉”。为何放缓AI竞赛并非易事 施瓦茨集团此前持有Aleph Alpha超过20%的股份，在德国新建数据中心花费了近250亿美元。施瓦茨数字首席执行官克里斯蒂安·穆勒表示，该集团计划在其STACKIT云上运行Cohere的模型，并称这项投资是继Aleph Alpha交易后的下一步。
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez called the government's investment "a huge honour." Why slowing the AI race won't be easy Schwarz, which owned more than 20 per cent of Aleph Alpha, spent almost $25 billion on new data centres in Germany. Schwarz Digits CEO Christian Müller said the group plans to run Cohere's models on its STACKIT cloud, calling the investment the next step after the Aleph Alpha deal.
Cohere表示，该轮融资目前仅完成首次交割，未透露迄今已承诺多少资金，也未说明预计何时完成融资。
Cohere has completed only an initial close of the round and did not say how much has been committed so far or when it expects the round to close.
该公司表示，截至第三季度，年度经常性收入同比增长165%，客户数量已增至300家。
The company said annual recurring revenue grew 165 per cent year over year as of the third quarter and that its customer count has grown to 300.