Cohere's North 2 adds token caps, rebuilt agent orchestration

North 2 is an upgrade rather than a debut: North has been generally available since August 2025, and Cohere says a year of large production deployments across industries from finance to the public sector shaped what went into it. That experience shows up in the design choices — agents built from a simple prompt can be shared across a company so other teams do not rebuild the same workflow, each agent keeps memory between sessions, and documents every agent should reach sit in shared libraries.

The orchestration system runs multistep tasks on its own and pulls in a human for steps that need sign-off, while security guardrails applied to individual agents screen for personally identifiable information and attempted prompt injection. The spending controls and the security controls both live in the same management console, North Admin, which is a signal that Cohere sees cost and governance as the two things that block agent rollouts inside large organizations.

Cohere is counting on its work with Nvidia Corp. to lower what North costs to run, saying its models produce more tokens per second per node on Nvidia's Blackwell and Hopper GPUs. Whether that translates into the cost savings enterprises are looking for is likely to depend on how customers mix Cohere's models with ones they bring from outside, since North 2 is model-agnostic. The update also arrives less than three weeks after Cohere signed a merger agreement with German AI developer Aleph Alpha GmbH, a deal that will keep the Cohere name on the combined company.