The Canadian AI development company, Cohere is developing native AI for computer parts the company NVIDIA.
NVIDIA’s line of DGX Spark computers will come equipped with AI to increase business efficiency and keep data within Canadian borders.
According to a Cohere news release, governments and industries use AI systems that operate securely within their own borders, and Cohere is implementing this AI model to accomplish that.
The press release said building this AI to run locally will transition to its use across the world’s most critical sectors, including finance, health care, and the public sector.
According to NVIDIA’s website, its chips are used across the architecture, automotive, industrial, and media industries.
Matthew Pietrafesa, a second-year programming student, said the data within Canadian borders does not matter because data is bought and sold across borders all the time.
He said the companies giving up their data to NVIDIA or Cohere know that when they purchase the computers.
“Cohere does a lot of work with high-security settings. Privacy is not just important, but essential for the customers that we work with,” Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said at the 2026 NVIDIA GTC conference in March.
Humber Polytechnic’s AI Integration and Governance Program Coordinator Parisa Pouladzadeh said security is important for the user due to the selling of potentially private information.
She said the data is valuable to both the buyer and seller of the companies because of the amount of time it takes to accumulate.
“It will be expensive because sometimes they gather them (the data for) 10 years, and now, it has the value,” she said.
She said working locally on a server is the best way to mitigate the risk of AI companies using data.
NVIDIA currently invests in Cohere along with fellow computer parts company, AMD, Canadian Crown Pension corporation, PSP investments and global investment firm, Salesforce Ventures.
Cohere has a $500 million rise in its current $6.8B evaluation by new investment firm Radical Ventures, Canadian investment firm Inovia Capital, and the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) which invests health-care workers' contributions to provide a return on investment for retired workers.
According to a 2025 government of Canada news release, the country was the first in the world to introduce a national AI strategy by partnering with Cohere.
The release said Ottawa announced more than $4.4 billion to support AI and its digital research infrastructure in 2016. This includes $2.4 billion in its 2024 budget toward integrating AI and launching an AI safety institute.
