Cohere launches North 2 with agent orchestration and usage controls

Cohere launched North 2, overhauling its enterprise AI-agent platform with a redesigned system for orchestrating multi-step work and new administrator controls over model access and token consumption.

For enterprise operators, the update brings roles, permissions and AI usage into one management layer. Cohere says North Admin can show activity at the user and agent level, place users and groups into consumption tiers based on request and token rates, issue alerts as usage approaches thresholds, and apply organization-wide caps. Customers can assign Cohere models or models they supply themselves.

North 2’s rebuilt agent harness can turn prompts into agents and automations for multi-step processes. Teams can share those agents across an organization, package repeatable logic as reusable skills, use shared libraries and retain context through memory across sessions.

Cohere says autonomy policies limit agents to authorized actions and require human oversight for critical decisions or actions. The company has not disclosed the default settings or the criteria that trigger that review.

The platform also includes prebuilt automation templates, a drag-and-drop workflow builder and real-time performance monitoring. Users can create documents, dashboards, slide decks and lightweight applications from natural-language requests.

Cohere says customers can run North 2 in self-hosted, virtual private cloud, hybrid, on-premises and fully air-gapped environments. The release extends its enterprise platform strategy alongside a planned agentic AI integration for regulated industries. Cohere describes North 2 as secure and production-ready, but the supplied sources do not independently test its security, orchestration reliability or protection of sensitive data.

Cohere also claims its models running on NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper hardware can increase tokens processed per second per node and lower spending. It did not provide benchmark methodology, a baseline or an absolute result. North 2 pricing and a precise rollout schedule remain undisclosed, and the sources do not explain what happens when a user or organization reaches a usage cap.