Cohere follows Mistral into sovereign inference, serving open models it didn't train
nathanbenaich · x · 2026-11-04
Following Mistral, Cohere is entering the "sovereign inference as a service" business, hosting frontier open-weight models it didn't train itself. Nathan Benaich calls it an interesting shift: "you either die trying to get to the frontier, or you live long enough to serve inference" — data-sovereignty demand is creating a business of serving open models without training them.
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