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  "markdown": "Chief AI Officer.\n\nJoelle Pineau is Cohere's Chief AI Officer. Before joining she was global vice president of Facebook AI Research, now AI at Meta, until May 2025. A computer scientist and professor at McGill University, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023.\n\n## What Joelle builds\n\n- [Cohere Chat API (Command models)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md), graded B, 64.7/100, in Model APIs \u0026 inference. Cohere's Chat API generates text with the Command family of models over REST (v2 chat), with tool use, structured outputs, citations and streaming. SDKs cover Python, TypeScript, Java and Go. Chief AI Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Cohere Embed and Rerank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-embed.md), graded BB, 72.5/100, in Embeddings \u0026 rerankers. Cohere's Embed API turns text, images and mixed text-and-image inputs such as PDF pages into vectors with Embed 5 Pro and Fast, and its Rerank API reorders search results with Rerank 4. Chief AI Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Cohere Transcribe 03-2026](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.md), graded C, 59.3/100, in Speech-to-text. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 is Cohere's open-weight speech recognition model, a 2B Conformer encoder with a light Transformer decoder trained from scratch, transcribing 14 languages from a pre-specified language, under Apache 2.0, in a gated Hugging Face repository. Chief AI Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aidan Gomez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aidan-gomez/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Ivan Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ivan-zhang/), Co-founder\n- [Nick Frosst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nick-frosst/), Co-founder\n- [Phil Blunsom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-blunsom/), Chief Technology Officer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [Inovia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/inovia-capital/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Oracle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/oracle/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [DTCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dtcp/)\n- [Mirae Asset](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mirae-asset/)\n- [Schroders](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schroders/)\n- [SentinelOne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sentinelone/)\n- [Thomvest Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thomvest-ventures/)\n- [Public Sector Pension Investment Board](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/public-sector-pension-investment-board/)\n- [Cisco Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/)\n- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)\n- [Export Development Canada](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/export-development-canada/)\n- [Fujitsu Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fujitsu-ventures/)\n- [Radical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radical-ventures/)\n- [Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/healthcare-of-ontario-pension-plan-hoopp/)\n- [Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/business-development-bank-of-canada-bdc/)\n- [Nexxus Capital Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nexxus-capital-management/)\n- [Schwarz Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Joelle Pineau?\n\nJoelle Pineau is Cohere's Chief AI Officer. Before joining she was global vice president of Facebook AI Research, now AI at Meta, until May 2025. A computer scientist and professor at McGill University, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023.\n\n### What does Cohere make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Cohere Chat API (Command models), Cohere Embed and Rerank and Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 from Cohere. Cohere's Chat API generates text with the Command family of models over REST (v2 chat), with tool use, structured outputs, citations and streaming. SDKs cover Python, TypeScript, Java and Go.\n\n### Who has invested in Cohere?\n\nThe sources our research read name Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Inovia Capital, NVIDIA, Oracle, Salesforce, DTCP, Mirae Asset, Schroders, SentinelOne, Thomvest Ventures, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Cisco Investments, AMD, Export Development Canada, Fujitsu Ventures, Radical Ventures, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Nexxus Capital Management and Schwarz Group.\n\n### How are Joelle's tools graded?\n\nCohere Chat API (Command models) is graded B, 64.7 out of 100; Cohere Embed and Rerank is graded BB, 72.5 out of 100; Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 is graded C, 59.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://cohere.com/about\n- https://cohere.com/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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