Cohere

Research Internship (Fall 2025)

Canada

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
InternshipExperience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, Research & DevelopmentIndustries

Requirements

Candidates must be currently pursuing, or in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline, and be eligible for work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization throughout the internship period. Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies, data annotation and evaluation pipelines, or implementing state of the art ML models is preferred, as well as familiarity with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.

Responsibilities

As a Cohere Research Intern, you will conduct cutting-edge machine learning research, building and training large language models, focusing on research projects aimed at expanding the frontier of knowledge in language modelling and associate areas such as evaluation, multimodal models, optimisation etc., disseminate your research results through the production of publications, datasets, and code, and contribute to research initiatives that have practical applications in Cohere’s product development.

Skills

Large-scale distributed training
Data annotation
Evaluation pipelines
State-of-the-art ML models
Transformers
Language modeling
Multimodal models
Optimization
Research dissemination

Cohere

Provides NLP tools and LLMs via API

About Cohere

Cohere provides advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) through a user-friendly API. Their services cater to a wide range of clients, including businesses that want to improve their content generation, summarization, and search functions. Cohere's business model focuses on offering scalable and affordable generative AI tools, generating revenue by granting API access to pre-trained models that can handle tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and semantic search in multiple languages. The platform is customizable, enabling businesses to create smarter and faster solutions. With multilingual support, Cohere effectively addresses language barriers, making it suitable for international use.

Key Metrics

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$914.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Risks

Competitors like Google and Microsoft may overshadow Cohere with seamless enterprise system integration.
Reliance on Nvidia chips poses risks if supply chain issues arise or strategic focus shifts.
High cost of AI data center could strain financial resources if government funding is delayed.

Differentiation

Cohere's North platform outperforms Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in enterprise functions.
Rerank 3.5 model processes queries in over 100 languages, enhancing multilingual search capabilities.
Command R7B model excels in RAG, math, and coding, outperforming competitors like Google's Gemma.

Upsides

Cohere's AI data center project positions it as a key player in Canadian AI.
North platform offers secure AI deployment for regulated industries, enhancing privacy-focused enterprise solutions.
Cohere's multilingual support breaks language barriers, expanding its global market reach.

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