Canadian AI startup Cohere buys Germany’s Aleph Alpha to expand in Europe

Canadian AI firm Cohere agreed on Friday to buy German tech startup Aleph Alpha at an undisclosed price as it looks to increase sales to government and business customers in highly regulated European ‌markets.

Initially seen ⁠as Germany’s ⁠answer to OpenAI, Aleph Alpha has since abandoned development of large AI language models such as ChatGPT to ​focus on specialised AI applications for businesses, similar to Cohere.