Canada invests in Cohere, valued at up to 36 billion Canadian dollars

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    "url": "https://renseignementeconomique.fr/le-canada-investit-dans-cohere-valorise-jusqu-a-36-milliards-de-dollars-canadiens",
    "title": "Canada invests in Cohere, valued at up to 36 billion Canadian dollars - https://renseignementeconomique.fr/",
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    "excerpt": "Canadian artificial intelligence lab Cohere is launching a financing round of up to 7 billion Canadian dollars. Ottawa plans to invest up to 1.6 billion, while the company promises to devote at least 1.7 billion to its infrastructure in Canada by 2030. By Romain Delacroix AI Startups & fintech journalist October 29, 2026 at 18:21 4 min read 305 reads Cohere is changing scale. The Toronto-based artificial intelligence lab announced the launch of a fundraising round likely to reach 7 billion Canadian dollars, or about 4.49 billion dollars. The transaction, still in its initial closing phase, would value the company at around 36 billion Canadian dollars. The amount actually raised at this stage has not been disclosed, nor has the timetable for finalizing the round. The particularity of this operation lies in the direct involvement of the Canadian state. In Montreal, Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated that Ottawa could invest up to 1.6 billion Canadian dollars in Cohere's equity. The government intends to support an actor presented as strategic while maintaining its national roots, at a time when computing power and AI model requirements demand increasingly heavy investments. The financing is led by Schwarz, the German group that owns the Lidl and Kaufland chains. In April, Schwarz had committed to providing 500 million euros as part of the rapprochement between Cohere and Aleph...",
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  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

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  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"cohere.com","limit":20}'