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Cohere, a competitor to OpenAI focusing on large language models (LLMs) for businesses, has launched “build-your-own connectors.” This new feature will let companies securely connect their data from third-party applications like Slack, Google Drive, ServiceNow, or WordPress to Cohere’s Command LLM.
A company spokesperson mentioned that, to their knowledge, this offer is unique and follows Cohere’s recent achievement of becoming the only AI company allowing fine-tuning across all four major cloud providers. According to a Cohere blog post, this open-beta release will help businesses create AI assistants on Cohere’s enhanced AI platform. These assistants can draw from information stored in numerous tools used daily, providing contextually accurate and relevant responses.
Roy Eldar, a senior product manager at Cohere, who was involved in the project, emphasized the importance of data for LLMs. He described enabling enterprise models to securely access company data from various third-party applications as a significant advancement for what AI can offer businesses.
The blog post detailed that these connectors align with Cohere’s philosophy of meeting companies’ data needs, regardless of which cloud or third-party application they use. This allows companies to integrate their data into the models securely within their own cloud and use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to pinpoint the sources of answers, enhancing response accuracy and reducing errors.
Cohere explained that the latest Command framework update allows businesses to connect data from third-party stores with a search API to RAG. This significant upgrade enables Cohere to show citations next to AI-generated answers, permitting users to click on source links for verification or additional information.
Cohere considers these connectors a significant improvement for conversational AI in business settings. By integrating RAG and leveraging data from third-party stores through connectors, the usefulness of conversational AI solutions for businesses has been vastly enhanced.
To assist in-house developers, Cohere is releasing around 100 “quick start connectors” on GitHub for popular applications like GitHub, Asana, Slack, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Pinecone. Furthermore, the company offers full support for other third-party data stores.
The announcement of these connectors marks the end of a notable year for Toronto-based Cohere. After flying under the radar, the company raised $270 million in funding in June and opened a second headquarters in San Francisco in September. Following a tumultuous period at OpenAI in November, where CEO Sam Altman was temporarily ousted and then reinstated, Cohere experienced increased business inquiries. At that time, Cohere’s co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez highlighted job openings on the company’s careers page, particularly for “Machine Learning Members of Technical Staff.”
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