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Cohere VP: Enterprise AI sovereignty needs full control of agent stack

Rachad Alao, vice president of product engineering at Canadian AI startup Cohere, spoke at VB Transform 2026 in Menlo Park about building AI agent systems while keeping sensitive data and infrastructure under enterprise control. Alao, who previously led responsible AI teams at Google and Meta, argued that AI sovereignty requires more than just running an open model behind a corporate firewall.

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