Cohere launches North 2, an agent platform with cost controls and on-premises or air-gapped deployment.

Cohere's page, dated 5 October 2026, calls North 2 "Cohere’s biggest upgrade yet", unifying security, intelligence, cost governance and full-stack control in a single agentic AI platform.

Oct 05, 2026 ... North 2 is Cohere’s biggest upgrade yet — unifying enterprise‑grade security, intelligence, cost governance, and full‑stack control into a single agentic AI platform that runs wherever your data lives.

Cohere lists a new agent harness, described as a redesigned orchestration system for multi-step automations and agents.

New agent harness: North 2 has a redesigned orchestration system enabling more sophisticated, reliable, multi-step automations and agents across the enterprise.

Cohere lists Skills, Libraries, Memory, Applications and Automations as core features of North 2, and says agents keep context across sessions through memory.

Core features included in North 2 Skills: Reusable capabilities agents can call on, so no employee wastes time rebuilding the same logic. Libraries: Shared knowledge and assets that the whole org can draw from. Memory: Agents that keep context across sessions, instead of starting cold every time. Applications: ... Automations:

Cohere says North 2 is model agnostic: teams can use Cohere's models or bring their own.

Model agnostic: Whether you’re using Cohere’s models — or bringing your own — use the models that support your team’s best work.

Cohere says North deploys self-hosted, in a VPC, hybrid, on-premises, or fully air-gapped.

It deploys privately on-prem, in the cloud, or fully air-gapped ... Deployment flexibility: Select the deployment environment that best suits your security needs (self-hosted, VPC, hybrid, or on-premises).

Cohere says North Admin adds "granular cost controls, rate limits, user quotas, and org-wide caps".

Enterprise governance: North admin adds granular cost controls, rate limits, user quotas, and org-wide caps for predictable, governed AI operations.

Cohere lists new connectors to Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Jira, Linear, Notion and GitHub, and says connectors to financial data providers including PitchBook, Crunchbase, Daloopa, FiscalAI, S&P Global and FactSet are planned.

Connectors: Connect North to your data, with new connectors including enterprise connectors to Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Jira, Linear, Notion, and GitHub, plus planned financial data providers PitchBook, Crunchbase, Daloopa, FiscalAI, S&P Global, FactSet, among others.

Cohere says it holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications.

Exceeding global security standards: with SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications.