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Nick Frosst

Cofounder and President, Cohere

Search every verified Nick Frosst interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Nick Frosst, co-founder and president of Cohere, has been speaking publicly about AI sovereignty, enterprise AI, and the company’s strategic bets. In a May 2026 panel on sovereignty, Frosst described sovereignty as “agency and autonomy” that can apply at multiple scales—individual, organizational, and national. He argued that buying Canadian technology is necessary to generate incentive systems for world-class products, and expressed support for mandating that Canadian pension funds invest in Canadian companies. Frosst also noted that Cohere has raised the majority of its capital from outside Canada, but has worked with Canadian investors such as PSP, Radical, and Anovia. He characterized Cohere’s decision to release an Apache 2.0 open-weights model as a bet that the company’s value lies in its deployment, agentic framework, and search stack rather than the model alone. In a series of podcast appearances from March and April 2026, Frosst emphasized Cohere’s focus on enterprise customers and pragmatic AI, contrasting it with companies that he said are “banking your finances on the creation of AGI.” He stated that Cohere is “building ROI, not AGI” and that the company has trained competitive models with “1/100th of the compute of our competitors.” Frosst described Cohere as unique in its singular focus on enterprise, its non-American and non-Chinese origin, and its approach to providing sovereignty for users. He predicted that enterprise AI will increasingly involve workers directing language models to perform tasks, rather than writing code themselves.

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  • Sovereignty Stack — Cohere, Kepler, Dominion Dynamics, Build Canada

    May 27, 2026 · 📺 Toronto Tech Week

    Lucy Hargreaves (Build Canada) moderates a Homecoming panel with Mina Mitry (Kepler), Eliot Pence (Dominion Dynamics), and Nick Frosst (Cohere) on what sovereignty actually means for Canada. Sovereignty isn't protectionism — it's control and freedom of action. The bottleneck isn't capital or talent — it's a 16.5-year procurement cycle and a government that won't be its own first customer. CHAPTERS 0:00 What Sovereignty Actually Means 2:35 Dominion & the OODA Loop 3:33 Control and Freedom of Action 6:00 Cohere's Bet on Open Weights 9:17 Protectionism vs. Globally Competitive 12:42 The 16.5-Yea…

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  • Cohere Co-Founder Nick Frosst on Enterprise AI and Sovereignty

    March 01, 2026 · 📺 AI Chat (Audio)

    Jaeden sits down with Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, to discuss the company's focus on enterprise AI, foundational models, and AI sovereignty. Nick shares why Cohere prioritizes practical and secure solutions over chasing AGI, and how businesses can avoid common mistakes when adopting AI technology. Watch on YouTube:    • Cohere Co-Founder Nick Frosst on Enterpris...   Conor's AI Course: https://www.ai-mindset.ai/courses Get the top 80+ AI Models for $8.99 at AI Box: https://aibox.ai Check out Cohere: https://cohere.com/ Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Cohere and AI Background…

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  • Cohere Co-Founder Nick Frosst on Enterprise AI and Sovereignty

    April 01, 2026 · 📺 AI Applied (Audio)

    Jaeden sits down with Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, to discuss the company's focus on enterprise AI, foundational models, and AI sovereignty. Nick shares why Cohere prioritizes practical and secure solutions over chasing AGI, and how businesses can avoid common mistakes when adopting AI technology. Watch on YouTube:    • Cohere Co-Founder Nick Frosst on Enterpris...   Conor's AI Course: https://www.ai-mindset.ai/courses Get the top 80+ AI Models for $8.99 at AI Box: https://aibox.ai Check out Cohere: https://cohere.com/ Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Cohere and AI Background 03:31 Coh…

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  • Cohere Co Founder Nick Frosst on Enterprise AI and Sovereignty

    March 01, 2026 · 📺 AI Chat

    Jaeden sits down with Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, to discuss the company's focus on enterprise AI, foundational models, and AI sovereignty. Nick shares why Cohere prioritizes practical and secure solutions over chasing AGI, and how businesses can avoid common mistakes when adopting AI technology. Conor's AI Course: https://www.ai-mindset.ai/courses Get the top 80+ AI Models for $8.99 at AI Box: https://aibox.ai Check out Cohere: https://cohere.com/ Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Cohere and AI Background 03:31 Cohere's Unique Approach to AI for Enterprises 06:20 Real-World Applications…

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  • Cohere Co-Founder Nick Frosst on Enterprise AI and Sovereignty

    April 01, 2026 · 📺 AI Applied

    Jaeden sits down with Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, to discuss the company's focus on enterprise AI, foundational models, and AI sovereignty. Nick shares why Cohere prioritizes practical and secure solutions over chasing AGI, and how businesses can avoid common mistakes when adopting AI technology. Conor's AI Course: https://www.ai-mindset.ai/courses Get the top 80+ AI Models for $8.99 at AI Box: https://aibox.ai Check out Cohere: https://cohere.com/ Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Cohere and AI Background 03:31 Cohere's Unique Approach to AI for Enterprises 06:20 Real-World Applications…

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  • Glenda Crisp & Nick Frosst | Fireside Chat on AI Sovereignty and Building Beyond Silicon Valley

    February 19, 2026 · 📺 Vector Institute

    Discover why one of the world's leading AI companies chose Canada over Silicon Valley. Nick Frosst, Co-founder of Cohere, joins Vector CEO Glenda Crisp for a candid conversation about building transformative AI companies in Canada, translating research into commercial impact, and what "AI sovereignty" means in practice. Why This Matters: "We like Canada. It's a great place to start a company." As disenchantment with Silicon Valley's vision for AI grows, Canadian firms have an unprecedented opportunity to lead. This fireside chat explores how Cohere is proving that world-class AI companies ca…

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  • Is Cohere the Next AI Powerhouse? | First Time Founders with Ed Elson

    March 01, 2026 · 📺 The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

    Today in First Time Founders, Ed Elson speaks with Nick Frosst, a co-founder of Cohere. They discuss why the company chose an enterprise-only strategy, how he sees the future of AI unfolding, and whether an IPO is on the horizon. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:07 Interview with Nick Frosst 01:18 What is Cohere? 03:37 Why are there so little companies building foundational AI models? 05:16 How did you get involved in Cohere? 07:18 What did you learn from Geoffrey Hinton? 10:40 Was ChatGPT the main breakthrough for AI? 16:01 What made AI more attractive to big corporations? 20:26 Will there be othe…

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  • Building the Future of Enterprise AI Globally with Nick Frosst, Co-Founder at Cohere

    February 19, 2026 · 📺 Inovia Capital

    In our Canadian Roots. Global Mindset. campaign, Cohere's Nick Frosst shares why they chose to build here, how principled ...

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  • Why Cohere Is Betting on Enterprise AI, Not AGI

    February 17, 2026 · 📺 Eye on AI

    This episode is sponsored by tastytrade. Trade stocks, options, futures, and crypto in one platform with low commissions and zero commission on stocks and crypto. Built for traders who think in probabilities, tastytrade offers advanced analytics, risk tools, and an AI-powered Search feature. Learn more at https://tastytrade.com/ In this episode of Eye on AI, Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere and former Google Brain researcher, explains why Cohere is betting on enterprise AI instead of chasing AGI. While much of the AI industry is focused on artificial general intelligence, Cohere is build…

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  • PRIMARY NYC SUMMIT 2025– Nick Frosst & Yevgeny Gelfand

    September 18, 2025 · 📺 Primary Venture Partners

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