加拿大人工智能公司Cohere已完成其E轮融资的首次交割，目标规模最高可达70亿加元。该公司表示，这将使其估值达到357亿加元。加拿大政府是新投资者之一。
Cohere has completed the first close of its Series E round, which it aims to grow to as much as C$7bn. The Toronto AI company says that would value it at C$35.7bn. The Government of Canada is among the new investors.
Cohere周四通过新闻稿和三位联合创始人的博客文章宣布了该轮融资。公司称，这是加拿大科技公司筹集的最大私人融资。
Cohere announced the round on Thursday in a press release and a blog post by its three co-founders. It says the round is the largest private financing ever raised by a Canadian technology company.
“最强大的人工智能系统高度集中于极少数公司，极少数国家，”加拿大总理马克·卡尼周四在新闻发布会上表示。
“The most powerful AI systems are concentrated in a very small number of companies, in a very small number of countries,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a press conference on Thursday.
谁在投资 彭博社报道，欧洲大型零售商施瓦茨集团旗下公司领投Cohere的E轮融资，此前已承诺投资6亿美元。贝尔风投、Bullhound Capital和加拿大政府是新投资者。Inovia Capital、英伟达和Prosperity7 Ventures此前已投资。
Who is putting money in The companies of Schwarz Group, a large European retailer, lead the Cohere Series E, having committed $600m earlier, Bloomberg reported. Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital and the Government of Canada are new investors. Inovia Capital, Nvidia and Prosperity7 Ventures invested before.
据彭博社记者丽贝卡·托伦斯和劳拉·奥斯曼报道，加拿大政府已同意投资最多11.4亿美元。新闻稿称，Cohere作为投资的一部分正在做出承诺。据彭博社报道，卡尼表示，Cohere计划将总部留在加拿大，并将在2030年前在当地投资约12亿美元用于计算基础设施。
The Canadian government has agreed to invest up to $1.14bn, Rebecca Torrence and Laura Osman reported for Bloomberg. Cohere is making commitments as part of the investment, the release says. Cohere plans to keep its headquarters in Canada, Carney said, according to Bloomberg. It will also invest about $1.2bn in computing infrastructure there by 2030.
彭博社将估值定为205亿美元，该数字不包括新资金。它称，整轮融资总额最高可达50亿美元。据彭博社报道，这大约是Cohere一年前估值的三倍。
Bloomberg put the valuation at $20.5bn, a figure that does not include the new money. It said the full round would total up to $5bn. That roughly triples Cohere’s value from a year ago, according to Bloomberg.
我们很高兴宣布E轮融资的首次交割，目标最高可达70亿加元，估值为357亿加元；这标志着加拿大初创企业历史上最大的私人融资轮次。
We’re proud to announce the initial close of our Series E, targeting up to CAD $7 billion at a CAD $35.7 billion valuation; marking the largest private financing round in Canadian startup history.
2026年10月29日 Cohere拒绝透露目标中已有多少已承诺。首席财务官弗朗索瓦·查德威克告诉彭博社，首次交割包括“其中的大部分”。增长，以及未披露的内容Cohere 表示，截至 9 月底的这一年，其年度经常性收入增长超过 165%。其客户数量一年内增长 20 倍，达到 300 家。客户包括加拿大贝尔公司、富士通、加拿大皇家银行、道明银行、普华永道和 TKMS。Chadwick 拒绝向彭博社透露具体收入数字，也拒绝就上市计划置评。
October 29, 2026 Cohere declined to say how much of the target is already committed. Chief financial officer Francois Chadwick told Bloomberg the first close includes “most of it”. Growth, and what is not disclosed Cohere says its annual recurring revenue grew more than 165% in the year to the end of September. Its customer count rose 20 times in a year, to 300. They include Bell Canada, Fujitsu, RBC, TD Bank, PwC and TKMS. Chadwick declined to give Bloomberg a revenue figure, and declined to comment on plans for a stock market listing.
首席执行官 Aidan Gomez 在新闻发布会上表示：“这些投资对我们下一阶段的增长至关重要，”据彭博社报道。
“These investments are critical for the next chapter of our growth,” chief executive Aidan Gomez said at the press conference, Bloomberg reported.
Gomez 称，Cohere 计划招聘 1000 多个新职位。公司表示，还将把资金用于其模型以及面向受监管行业的产品。部分资金将用于购买算力以训练前沿模型。欧洲的押注Cohere 今年同意与德国的 Aleph Alpha 合并，该交易在柏林和多伦多设立总部。公司还计划收购网络安全初创公司 AISLE，后者将成为 Cohere Cyber。
Gomez said Cohere plans to hire for more than 1,000 new positions. The company says it will also spend the money on its models and on products for regulated industries. Some will pay for computing power to train frontier models. A European bet as well Cohere agreed this year to combine with Germany’s Aleph Alpha, a deal that set up headquarters in Berlin and Toronto. It also plans to buy cybersecurity startup AISLE, which will become Cohere Cyber.
Schwarz Digits 首席执行官 Christian Müller 表示，目标是在 STACKIT（Schwarz 自有的云平台）上运行 Cohere 的模型。德国数字部长 Karsten Wildberger 在声明中向公司表示祝贺。
Schwarz Digits chief executive Christian Müller said the goal is to run Cohere’s models on STACKIT, Schwarz’s own cloud. Germany’s digital minister, Karsten Wildberger, congratulated the company in the release.
在他们的帖子中，联合创始人反驳了他们所谓的“前沿宿命论”。这种观点认为，只有两个国家和少数几家公司能够构建领先的人工智能。他们写道，今年早些时候，通过 OpenRouter 提供的开放模型 token 中，超过 70% 来自中国模型。Cohere 周一表示，阿里巴巴的 Qwen 模型在其一次测试中试图向北京发送文件。
In their post, the co-founders argue against what they call “frontier fatalism”. That is the view that only two countries and a few companies can build leading AI. They wrote that more than 70% of open-model tokens served through OpenRouter came from Chinese models earlier this year. Cohere said on Monday that Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing during one of its tests.
联合创始人写道，在未来 12 个月内，Cohere 将完成 Aleph Alpha 和 AISLE 的交易，推出 Cohere Cyber，发布新模型，并开始与盟友合作伙伴进行前沿规模的训练。加拿大此前已支持人工智能：Carney 政府于 6 月发布了国家人工智能战略。
In the next 12 months, the founders wrote, Cohere will complete the Aleph Alpha and AISLE deals, launch Cohere Cyber, release new models and begin frontier-scale training with allied partners. Canada has backed AI before: Carney’s government unveiled a national AI strategy in June.