We are excited to announce the release of Cohere Command A and Rerank 3.5 models on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service. Alongside these powerful models, OCI Generative AI is introducing Embed 3, another Cohere model with multimodal support, further enhancing the versatility of embedding tasks. These advancements represent a significant step forward in delivering enterprise-grade AI capabilities to OCI customers.

Regions supported at GA:

  • Command A, On-Demand: ORD, GRU, LHR, KIX, FRA
  • Command A, Dedicated AI Clusters: OCI Gen AI Service Regions
  • Rerank 3.5, Dedicated AI Clusters: OCI Gen AI Service Regions

Command A-Unmatched Performance and Efficiency

Cohere’s Command A 03-2025 is the most performant Command model to date, delivering 150% of the throughput of its predecessor (Command R+08-2024) while requiring only two GPUs. According to Cohere, its performance matches or exceeds OpenAI 4o and DeepSeekv3 in agentic enterprise tasks, with significantly improved compute efficiency.

Key Features of Command A

  • 256k token context length
  • Advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Native Agentic tool use
  • Enterprise-grade security and privacy
  • Strong multi-lingual capabilities: The model has been trained in 23 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portugese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukranian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, and Persian.
  • Text input and output only

Note: This model does not support fine-tuning.

Rerank 3.5: Elevating Enterprise Search

Rerank 3.5 is Cohere’s latest AI search foundation model designed to help enhance the accuracy of enterprise search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. The model features enhanced reasoning capabilities for understanding complex user queries, broad compatibility with various data types (including long documents, emails, tables, JSON, and code), and superior multilingual performance across over 100+ languages.

Key Features of Rerank 3.5

  • Enhanced reasoning capabilities: Improved understanding of complex user queries
  • Versatile data support: Compatible with long documents, emails, tables, JSON, and code.
  • Improved multilingual support: Covers more than 100 languages, including significant business languages like English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
  • Search accuracy: In tests on financial data, Rerank 3.5 outperformed Hybris Search by +23.4% better than Hybrid Search and +30.8% better than BM25 (a ranking function used in search engines and information retrieval to determine the relevance of documents to a given search query)

Empowering OCI Customers with Advanced AI

These Cohere models offer high performance, versatility, and scalability for a wide range of enterprise applications. OCI customers can leverage models without infrastructure management concerns. Seamless access is available through chat interfaces, APIs, or dedicated endpoints.

Unlock the potential of enterprise AI with Cohere Command A and Rerank models on OCI Generative AI!

Please consult our Generative AI service documentation or contact your Oracle representative for integration details and pricing information.

For more information, please refer to the following resources.