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- Cohere opens Model Vault in public beta with confidential computing on Azure
Cohere says Model Vault is in public beta, letting customers run Cohere models on Microsoft Azure GPUs with NVIDIA Confidential Computing so workloads stay encrypted.
- Cohere releases Rerank 5 Pro and Fast, with Context Focus to return only the relevant passages
Cohere has released Rerank 5, its new reranking models for enterprise retrieval. Rerank 5 Pro targets the highest quality on reasoning-heavy and domain-specific queries, while Rerank 5 Fast targets low latency and, Cohere says, beats its previous Rerank 4 Pro. An optional Context Focus feature returns the most relevant passages in each document as scored character spans, so only those go to the LLM. The models support 100+ languages and a 32K context window, and are available through Cohere's API, Microsoft Foundry and Amazon SageMaker.
- Cohere shows its Rerank models playing Mario, with Rerank 5 trying to beat Rerank 4's score
Cohere posted a video of its Rerank models, which it says have many enterprise applications, playing a Mario game, with Rerank 5 trying to beat Rerank 4's score.
- Cohere's release notes cover North Small Translate, an open-weights translation model
Cohere's release notes, dated September 9, 2026, introduce North Small Translate, a mixture-of-experts model with 218 billion total and 25 billion active parameters built for machine translation across more than 50 languages. It has a 16K context window and is available through the free-tier Chat V2 API and as non-commercial open weights in W4A16, FP8 and BF16.
- Cohere's release notes list a major round of Command deprecations
In release notes dated September 16, 2025, Cohere deprecates command-r-03-2024, command-r-plus-04-2024, command-light, command and summarize, and recommends command-r-08-2024, command-r-plus-08-2024 or command-a-03-2025 instead. It also retires fine-tuning for several models and deprecates endpoints including /v1/connectors, /v1/generate, /v1/summarize and /v1/classify, plus the Slack app and Coral web UI.
- Cohere Embed V5 Fast listed on Azure AI Foundry
Cohere's Embed V5 Fast model is now listed on Azure AI Foundry's model catalog.
- Cohere releases Embed v5 embedding model
Cohere released Embed v5, per its changelog. The entry follows companion documentation for the Cohere Embed product line.