Accenture and enterprise AI startup Cohere have partnered to bring state-of-the-art language models and search capabilities to businesses worldwide. The collaboration brings together Accenture's extensive industry expertise and Cohere's state-of-the-art language models and search capabilities to deliver customized generative AI solutions that can drive productivity and efficiency across various sectors.
In a blog post, Lan Guan, Chief AI Officer at Accenture, announced the partnership, noting that the companies will provide businesses with generative AI solutions powered by Cohere's flagship proprietary generative LLM (Command) and leading enterprise search technology (Embed, Rerank). These solutions will deliver customized business solutions that increase productivity and efficiency for businesses.
Cohere's Command models have conversational capabilities and are well-suited for text summarization and chat applications. The company's Embed models improve search applications through company data and documents and improve retrievals for RAG systems. Rerank is a powerful tool that performs semantic search, allowing users to return more relevant and accurate results.
Early successful projects have included powering Accenture's knowledge agent built for its Finance and Treasury teams with Cohere's Command model. The solution enables accurate summarization for the agent, which helps its teams detect financial variance and make better decisions. The solution then sends customized alerts and chat notifications to make its global treasury operations team more efficient.
Cohere's models are supported by advanced RAG capabilities, which connect the LLM to datastores in real-time to provide more timely and accurate information. This helps address enterprise concerns with generative AI adoption by mitigating hallucinations and providing easy access to citations for information.
Cohere will be working closely with Accenture to offer its clients AI tailored solutions to meet their specific business needs. Businesses will be able to work with Cohere to build customized models with fine-tuning based on domain-specific knowledge and proprietary training datasets. With this business partnership, Cohere will also leverage Accenture's cloud, data, and industry expertise to build the most effective business solutions. This technology has already demonstrated great potential in a range of sectors from financial services and technology to retail, healthcare, and more.
As more companies implement generative AI solutions in their businesses, the partnership between Accenture and Cohere will help address challenges related to trust, verifiability, and data privacy. Cohere's advanced RAG capabilities anchor its LLMs to enterprise data sets and improve search results, resulting in responses that are well-founded, highly relevant, and include source citations. This contributes to a more reliable, verifiable, safe, and responsible use of AI.
Cohere's models can be deployed closely aligned with enterprise specifications, either using SaaS APIs in their cloud provider of choice, as a private deployment in their VPC on any of the hyperscale cloud providers, or using their own on-premise servers and infrastructure. This partnership will enable enterprises to explore customized solutions for their specific needs, optimizing accuracy and results by orchestrating different types of models.