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We Asked Our 4B Legal AI 10 Questions. It Invented 7 Cases.
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We Asked Our 4B Legal AI 10 Questions. It Invented 7 Cases.

An honest post-mortem on our own model — and what anyone building or buying AI should take from it.

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While You Were Watching the Chatbots
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While You Were Watching the Chatbots

Over the past two years, Canada quietly rebuilt the question of who controls its artificial intelligence. Not in one announcement. That's the point. There was never a single moment loud enough to make you look up. The decisions arrived in fragments — a Christmas Eve letter, a contribution agreement with a file number, a press release at a university most people don't follow, an MOU with the important parts blacked out. Each fragment was, on its own, small enough to ignore. Together they red

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Canada Is Renting Its Sovereignty
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Canada Is Renting Its Sovereignty

In the last piece I wrote about the anchor: Canada designated Cohere as its national champion at the foundation model layer — $240 million, a 24-year term, an MOU that called the company "the only sovereign, cloud-agnostic large language model operating in Canada," and a fund Cohere itself proposed. That designation is settled for a generation. This piece is the opposite kind of writing. The last one was analysis of public records, and I tried to stay out of it. This one carries a point of

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How Cohere Wrote the Fund That's Now Funding Everyone Else
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How Cohere Wrote the Fund That's Now Funding Everyone Else

On Christmas Eve 2024, the Government of Canada issued a Letter of Intent to Cohere for a Strategic Innovation Fund contribution of $240 million. The timing is the first thing worth noticing. Christmas Eve is when governments send letters they want done quickly and quietly. The Trudeau government was already wobbling. Chrystia Freeland had resigned on December 16, eight days earlier, in a public letter that called out the Prime Minister's "costly political gimmicks." Less than two weeks lat

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