# North 2: Enterprise AI without compromises

Date: 5 Oct 2026
Released by: Cohere

## MediaRelease.co Summary

Cohere launched North 2, an upgrade to its North agentic AI platform for enterprises, built around a redesigned agent orchestration system with skills, libraries, memory, application creation and automations. The release adds connectors including Slack, SharePoint, Jira, Notion and GitHub, plus North Admin controls for token spend, rate limits and user quotas. North 2 is model agnostic and can run in the cloud, on-premises or in air-gapped deployments.

## Original release

Key takeaways - New agent harness: North 2 has a redesigned orchestration system enabling more sophisticated, reliable, multi-step automations and agents across the enterprise. - Increased intelligence: Build smarter workflows and richer agent chat experiences using memory, libraries, skills, artifact, and app creation. - Model agnostic: Whether you’re using Cohere’s models — or bringing your own — use the models that support your team’s best work. - AI sovereignty: You’ll get full control over where and how AI runs, with flexible cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments. - Enterprise governance: North admin adds granular cost controls, rate limits, user quotas, and org-wide caps for predictable, governed AI operations. For the past few years, enterprises have been racing to deploy agentic AI, and they’ve paid for it in complexity, cost, and compromise. Every option demanded a sacrifice: the platform that's secure enough wasn’t smart enough; the one that's smart enough wasn’t controllable enough; the one you could govern became too expensive to run at scale. North 2 is where that tradeoff ends. Over the last year, Cohere has rolled out North across high-stakes industries, including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, and the public sector, investing deeply in large-scale production deployments. This has shaped North 2 into a full-stack agentic platform built for organizations that can't afford to compromise on security, intelligence, cost, or control. Enterprises choose North to ensure the journey to AI ROI is more predictable, transparent, and fully owned by the enterprise. Here's what that looks like in practice. Intelligence that scales with your enterprise North works with your knowledge, and now you can teach it more about what success means within your organization. Users can now create reusable agents and automations that can be shared across the organization, eliminating the need to rebuild similar workflows repeatedly. Prototype documents or apps directly in chat, or connect North to your favorite existing tools. At the core of North 2 is an advanced agent orchestration system that manages complex, multi-step processes independently. Build agents and automations with simple prompts, and automate your most tedious workflows — helping keep humans-in-the-loop where it matters. Core features included in North 2 - Skills : Reusable capabilities agents can call on, so no employee wastes time rebuilding the same logic. - Libraries : Shared knowledge and assets that the whole org can draw from. - Memory : Agents that keep context across sessions, instead of starting cold every time. - Applications : Prototype and ship decks, dashboards, documents, and lightweight apps from natural language. - Automations : Pre-built templates for common processes, a drag-and-drop visual workflow builder, real-time performance monitoring, and integrations with the tools you already use. - Connectors : Connect North to your data, with new connectors including enterprise connectors to Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Jira, Linear, Notion, and GitHub, plus planned financial data providers PitchBook, Crunchbase, Daloopa, FiscalAI, S&P Global, FactSet, among others. LG CNS leverages North to bring AI to customers at scale across South Korea to unlock real business value. “North gives enterprises a secure, practical foundation for turning agentic AI into real business value. Our experience using North within LG CNS and bringing it to customers across Korea has reinforced our confidence in its ability to scale intelligent automation across the enterprise.” — Yohan Jin, Head of AI Center, LG CNS Enterprise-first security Agentic AI changes the risk calculus for every enterprise security team. With agents that touch internal tools, and models that risk exposure to prompt injection, it has never been more important to safeguard data. North was built for that reality. It deploys privately on-prem, in the cloud, or fully air-gapped, and North Admin lets teams enforce guardrails at the individual agent level, so rolling agentic AI out to an entire workforce doesn't mean rolling out risk alongside it. Your knowledge graph gets smarter while your knowledge remains safe, never at risk of leaving the premises. Core features included in North 2 - Deployment flexibility: Select the deployment environment that best suits your security needs (self-hosted, VPC, hybrid, or on-premises). - Exceeding global security standards: with SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications. - Guardrails: Get guardrails to filter content, improve safety, and validate model responses. - Autonomy policies: Build agents designed to only take actions they are authorized to take, and seek human oversight for critical decisions or actions. - Rigorous security: Proactively identify and mitigate potential threats through continual security testing, including red-teaming exercises and third-party vulnerability scanning. - System observability: Gain visibility into North's operations with easy-to-use tools for monitoring service performance and detailed logs of all changes. To highlight another example, Bell Cyber is partnering with North to bring government-grade security to agentic AI. At Bell Cyber, we see every day how quickly the threat landscape is evolving, and how much security and data sovereignty matter to the organizations we protect. North lets us bring agentic AI into our security operations with the control, privacy, and sovereignty requirements our customers demand built in from the start. That's important not only for strengthening how we defend Bell and our customers, but for helping Canadian businesses and governments adopt agentic AI securely and with confidence. — Jawed Ahmad, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Bell Cyber Granular controls, improved tokenomics North Admin delivers enterprise-grade controls. Admins set roles and permissions, and control which models get used where and by who. Additionally, admins can monitor and manage activity in real time with detailed analytics, and get granular details or see a systems-level overview of AI investment usage, including token spend and limits. Before limits are set, thresholds for alerts can notify teams of risk. Whether your organization measures adoption or model consumption, Cohere provides the tooling to measure AI ROI. Core features included in North 2 - North Admin: Configure visibility to your desired level, including down to the user and agent level, so enterprises know exactly how their AI is being used, and can guardrail it accordingly. - Granular access controls and permissions: Integrate with your existing identity and access management systems, and get enhanced authentication and granular admin controls. - Flow control: Monitor and control token spend and limiting by defining consumption tiers based on requests and token rates for users and groups. - Efficient token consumption: When using NVIDIA hardware with Cohere models, get increased tokens per second per node, effectively decreasing spend. - Bring your organization’s existing models: North is model agnostic, use our generative model offerings or bring your favorites. Additionally, our collaboration with NVIDIA finds that North generates more insights, for fewer tokens, with Cohere models trained and deployed on NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper. That means fewer spent tokens, without sacrificing model intelligence. See more on our models here . Organizations need control over where their AI runs and how their data is secured,” said Kari Briski, Vice President of Generative AI at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper accelerate inference for Cohere models, helping North 2.0 deliver more tokens for less. Find your organization’s true North For organizations that demand rigor in their AI investments, North 2 leads with production-ready, full-stack AI solutions. With North, get end-to-end, customizable, capable, and secure tooling that integrates with existing systems and helps protect sensitive data — that point teams on the path to true AI for empowerment. North was built to be owned, and it is increasingly built to be specialized. With North, even the most regulated industries can adopt agentic AI confidently, knowing their deployments align with their operational, compliance, and governance needs. Contact sales to book a demo today.

## Key details

- Issued by: Cohere
- Published: 5 Oct 2026
- Publisher country: United States
- Topics: AI
- Original source: https://cohere.com/blog/introducing-north-2
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