Cohere Plans AISLE Acquisition to Expand AI Cybersecurity
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Cohere plans to acquire AISLE to add cybersecurity capabilities to its sovereign AI platform, using autonomous systems that find previously unknown software flaws and help fix them. The proposed agreement was announced on October 15, with no acquisition price disclosed. Cohere expects the combination to improve threat detection for enterprises and public-sector customers. The planned purchase would also bring AISLE’s team into Cohere and put its three founders in leadership roles. Ondrej Vlcek would lead the newly established global cybersecurity business, Cohere Cyber, as Senior Vice President, Cohere Cyber. Jaya Baloo would take responsibility for security across the company as Cohere’s Chief Information Security Officer. Stanislav Fort would become Vice President, AI Security, leading AI security research while participating in Cohere’s core model research and training. Cohere wants AISLE’s research to work more closely with its frontier-model development. The company says it is exploring whether hard, checkable security problems could help it assess and sharpen later models. AISLE, founded in 2024, identified every one of the 12 vulnerabilities included in OpenSSL’s January security release. Its findings also accounted for 18 of the 24 CVEs in curl’s latest release. The maintainers responsible for the affected software independently review the zero-day findings produced...
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Cohere also plans a long-term investment in Prague to grow AISLE’s operations there.
