Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps
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Artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. today unveiled North 2, an overhaul of its platform for running AI agents inside large organizations. Alongside a redesigned system for orchestrating multistep agent work, the update gives administrators new controls for capping token spending. With North 2, Cohere is going after a tradeoff it says enterprises have accepted while deploying agents, giving up one of security, capability or cost control to get the other two. North has been generally available since August 2025, and Cohere said a year of large production deployments in industries from finance to the public sector shaped what went into the upgrade. The orchestration system works through multistep tasks on its own and pulls in a human for steps that need sign-off. Agents built from a simple prompt can now be shared across a company, which saves other teams from building the same workflow twice. Each agent keeps memory between sessions. Cohere also added a skills feature for packaging logic that agents call on repeatedly. Documents and other assets that every agent should be able to reach go into shared libraries. From a natural-language request, North 2 can produce a slide deck, dashboard or lightweight app that users prototype inside the chat window. For recurring processes there are prebuilt templates and a drag-and-drop workflow builder that reports performance in...
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Other users include South Korean information technology services company LG CNS Co. Ltd., which runs North internally and brings it to customers across the country.