Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps

Cohere, an artificial intelligence company, unveiled North 2, a revamped platform for running AI agents within large organizations. The update introduces a redesigned system for orchestrating multi-step agent tasks and allows for capping token spending. Cohere aims to address the tradeoffs enterprises face when deploying agents, providing control over security, capability, or cost.

North 2 has been generally available since August 2025. The orchestration system handles multistep tasks on its own and involves human intervention for steps requiring sign-off. Agents, built from simple prompts, can now be shared across a company, saving other teams from developing the same workflows repeatedly. Each agent retains memory between sessions.

Cohere also added a skills feature for packaging logic agents repeatedly call on. Documents and other assets accessible to every agent are stored in shared libraries. North 2 can create a slide deck, dashboard, or lightweight app from a natural-language request, which users can prototype within the chat window. Prebuilt templates and a drag-and-drop workflow builder are available for recurring processes, with real-time performance reporting.

The platform's connector library now includes integrations with Slack, GitHub, Microsoft's SharePoint, and OneDrive. Cohere plans to add connectors to financial data providers like PitchBook Data, S&P Global, and FactSet Research Systems.

North Admin, the management console, tracks token usage down to individual users and agents. Administrators can define consumption tiers based on request and token rates and cap usage across the company. Alerts warn teams before limits are reached. Because North 2 is model-agnostic, administrators can assign models from Cohere or those brought by customers.

Cohere is counting on its partnership with Nvidia to reduce the cost of running North 2. Nvidia's models reportedly produce more tokens per second per node on their Blackwell and Hopper GPUs. Kari Briski, Nvidia's vice president of generative AI, stated that this helps North 2 "deliver more tokens for less."

Security controls are also managed through North Admin, where guardrails can be applied to individual agents. These controls cover personally identifiable information in prompts and responses, as well as prompt injection attempts. Autonomy policies restrict each agent to the actions it is authorized to perform.

North remains available on-premises or within a customer's virtual private cloud, including fully air-gapped installations for organizations that require no outside connection. Bell Canada's Bell Cyber unit is using North to run agentic AI with control and sovereignty requirements built-in from the start. LG CNS Co. Ltd., a South Korean IT services company, also runs North internally and provides it to customers nationwide.

Radical Ventures, an early Cohere investor, developed an automation on North that prepares the briefing read by its team before a founder call. Before North, the team spent hours gathering context. Cohere recently signed a merger agreement with German AI developer Aleph Alpha GmbH, which will keep the Cohere name on the combined company.