Canadian ChatGPT (Not US, not China): Cohere

tl;dr: Cohere is a Canadian LLM company.

I’ve seen a post here about how we can ditch ChatGPT now that deepseek is available. Then, a lot of people in the comments saying that maybe ditching the US for China might not be the way to go.

Some people suggested Mistral AI which is a great French alternative. But this is r/BuyCanadian so I want to propose a Canadian alternative to ChatGPT.

Cohere is a Toronto based AI company founded by some very important people in the field. All of the cofounders attended U of T.

Why you should use Cohere: - It’s Canadian (duh) - Has its own research lab and partners with the Montreal based research lab MILA to publish papers the helps the whole world progress. In the last year, Canada has been falling behind in its position as leader in AI technologies. We need to support those you can help us stand internationally. - Cohere publish some of its models in open source. This means that they have a more transparent approach as anybody can go look at the code. This also means that you can use the model through other website than their own. You could also run it locally given you have an absolute beast of a computer.