Artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. unveiled North 2 on October 5, 2026. The release marks 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.
Cohere targets enterprise trade-offs
With North 2, Cohere is going after a trade-off it says enterprises have accepted while deploying agents. Companies previously gave up one of security, capability, or cost control to get the other two. North has been generally available since August 2025. 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.
The platform supports new connectors
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 real time. The connector library now covers Slack, GitHub, and Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint and OneDrive. Cohere is also planning connectors to financial data providers, among them PitchBook Data Inc., S&P Global Inc., and FactSet Research Systems Inc.
The new spending controls sit in North Admin, the platform's management console. It now tracks token use down to the individual user and agent. Administrators can define consumption tiers for users and groups based on request and token rates and cap usage across the company. Alerts can be set to warn teams before a limit is reached. Because North 2 is model-agnostic, the models an administrator assigns to each team can include ones a customer brings from outside Cohere.
Nvidia partnership powers operations
Cohere is counting on its work with Nvidia Corp. to bring down what North costs to run. The company said its models produce more tokens per second per node on Nvidia's Blackwell and Hopper graphics processing units. Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI at Nvidia, said that helps North 2 deliver more tokens for less.
Security controls also sit in North Admin, where guardrails can be applied to individual agents. The screening covers personally identifiable information in prompts and responses as well as attempted prompt injection. Autonomy policies keep each agent to the actions it is authorized to take. North still runs on-premises or in a customer's own virtual private cloud, including fully air-gapped installations for organizations that allow no outside connection.
Read nextAnthropic launches Claude Frontier Academy with $100 million training commitmentBell Canada's Bell Cyber unit is using North inside its own security operations. Jawed Ahmad, Bell Cyber's chief technology and AI officer, said North lets the unit run agentic AI with the control and sovereignty requirements Bell Cyber's customers demand built in from the start. 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.
Radical Ventures, an early Cohere investor, built an automation on North that prepares the briefing its team reads before a founder call. Before it existed, partner Parasvil Patel said, the team spent hours gathering basic context. North 2 arrives less than three weeks after Cohere signed a merger agreement with German AI developer Aleph Alpha GmbH in a deal that will keep the Cohere name on the combined company.
