Command R+
By Cohere
Command R+ is Cohere's flagship large language model, released in April 2024, optimized for enterprise use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and multilingual business applications.
Definition
Command R+ is Cohere's flagship large language model, released in April 2024, optimized for enterprise use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and multilingual business applications.
Overview
Command R+ extended Cohere's Command R model family with a larger, more capable flagship model purpose-built for enterprise workflows rather than general consumer chat. Its design emphasizes grounded generation — producing responses backed by citations to retrieved source documents — making it a natural fit for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems where verifiability matters, such as internal knowledge assistants and customer-facing support bots that must avoid unsupported claims. Command R+ also supports multi-step tool use, allowing it to call external APIs, search tools, or databases as part of composing a response, and it offers strong multilingual performance across major business languages. Cohere, a Canadian AI company focused primarily on enterprise and business customers rather than consumer products, positioned Command R+ as a cost-effective alternative to larger general-purpose foundation models for tasks centered on search, retrieval, and structured business workflows. Command R+ is available through Cohere's API and via major cloud marketplaces, and it is frequently deployed alongside vector databases and embedding models as the generation component of enterprise RAG pipelines.
Key Features
- Optimized for retrieval-augmented generation with citation-backed responses
- Multi-step tool use for calling external APIs and data sources
- Strong multilingual support for business applications
- Positioned as an enterprise-focused alternative to consumer-oriented models
- Developed by Cohere, a Canadian enterprise AI company
- Available via Cohere's API and major cloud marketplaces
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