University of Toronto partners with Cohere on AI platform | ETIH EdTech News
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The University of Toronto has entered a multi-year AI partnership with Cohere. Photo: Diana Tyszko The University of Toronto has entered a multi-year partnership with Toronto-based AI company Cohere to incorporate its North agentic AI platform into a forthcoming enterprise-wide system. North will support the coordination of complex tasks across different university systems, providing what U of T describes as an orchestration layer. The wider AI strategy covers teaching and learning, research, student services, administration and operations. Announcing the partnership on LinkedIn, U of T President Melanie Woodin positioned responsible AI adoption as one of her institutional priorities: "The partnership will advance responsible AI adoption at scale, a pillar of my presidential commitments, by leveraging U of T's strengths in research and education, and Cohere's sovereign AI technology to show how secure, human-centred AI can be deployed across the university." "This partnership marks both a homecoming and the beginning of a new stage of evolution," says Donna Kidwell, U of T's Chief Information Officer. "It's designed to bring strategists, builders and our community together to demonstrate how secure, sovereign, human-centred AI can be deployed across the university." Cohere was founded in 2019 by former University of Toronto students Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang...
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