Enterprise AI Startup Cohere Launches Demo Chatbot Coral and Chat API

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Toronto, Canada-based Cohere, founded by ex-Googlers, has emerged as one of the leading startups amid the increasingly crowded generative AI marketplace with its focus on developing foundation models and other AI-powered technologies for enterprises.

Today, the company jumped into the fray of the AI chatbot race by releasing a new application programming interface (API), allowing third-party developers of other enterprises to build chat applications based off Cohere’s proprietary large language model (LLM), Command.

“Whether you’re building a knowledge assistant or customer support system, the Chat API makes creating reliable conversational AI products simpler,” wrote Cohere in a blog post announcing the service. It joins existing APIs from Cohere for content generation (Generate) and text summarization (Summary).

In addition, Cohere has provided its own free chatbot demo on the web, the Coral Showcase, to allow users to test out its chatbot on their own. However, you’ll need to sign in with your Google or Cohere credentials to access the environment. Coral initially introduced the Coral chatbot for customers in July, however, the API allows them to build it into their own internal or external-facing apps.