# Joelle Pineau (slim)

> Joelle Pineau is chief AI Officer. Cohere Chat API (Command models), Cohere Embed and Rerank and Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Chief AI Officer.

Joelle Pineau is Cohere's Chief AI Officer.

## What Joelle builds

- [Cohere Chat API (Command models)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md), graded B, 64.7/100, in Model APIs & 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.
- [Cohere Embed and Rerank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-embed.md), graded BB, 72.5/100, in Embeddings & 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.
- [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.

## Works with

- [Aidan Gomez](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aidan-gomez/), Co-founder and CEO
- [Ivan Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ivan-zhang/), Co-founder
- [Nick Frosst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nick-frosst/), Co-founder
- [Phil Blunsom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-blunsom/), Chief Technology Officer

## Backed by

- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)
- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)
- [Inovia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/inovia-capital/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [Oracle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/oracle/)
- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)
- [DTCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dtcp/)
- [Mirae Asset](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mirae-asset/)
- [Schroders](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schroders/)
- [SentinelOne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sentinelone/)
- [Thomvest Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thomvest-ventures/)
- [Public Sector Pension Investment Board](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/public-sector-pension-investment-board/)
- [Cisco Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/)
- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)
- [Export Development Canada](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/export-development-canada/)
- [Fujitsu Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fujitsu-ventures/)
- [Radical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radical-ventures/)
- [Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/healthcare-of-ontario-pension-plan-hoopp/)
- [Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/business-development-bank-of-canada-bdc/)
- [Nexxus Capital Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nexxus-capital-management/)
- [Schwarz Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/)

## Questions

### Who is Joelle Pineau?

Joelle Pineau is Cohere's Chief AI Officer.

### What does Cohere make?

Anchor Terminal lists Cohere Chat API (Command models), Cohere Embed and Rerank and Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 from Cohere.

### Who has invested in Cohere?

The 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.

### How are Joelle's tools graded?

Cohere 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.

## Sources

- https://cohere.com/about
- https://cohere.com/

These 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.