Canada’s Cohere, Germany’s Aleph Alpha in merger talks: Report

Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of Germany are in talks to merge and have Berlin’s support for a potential deal, newspaper Handelsblatt reported late on Thursday.

Citing government and industry sources, the paper said the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company, part of ‌a push to ⁠provide ⁠digital public services.

“If leading AI companies from Canada and Germany were to join forces that would send a very strong signal,” German Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the paper.