Cohere Director of Legal Kosta Starostin Joins BSA Board of Directors

WASHINGTON – Leading enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) company Cohere has joined BSA | The Software Alliance, the leading advocate for the enterprise software industry before governments and in the international marketplace, as its newest global member. Cohere’s Director of Legal Kosta Starostin will additionally join BSA’s Board of Directors.

“BSA emphasizes enterprise software companies’ constructive approach toward responsible AI policy in our advocacy before governments and institutions around the world,” said BSA CEO Victoria Espinel. “Cohere is pioneering state-of-the-art enterprise AI models that will transform businesses and help to enrich our work across the BSA membership to develop policy solutions that help to build trust in AI and promote the adoption of responsibly developed technology.”

“We’re proud to be joining BSA | The Software Alliance to continue to support enterprise customers and help advocate for AI policy solutions that balance potential risks with the benefits of technological progress,” said Cohere Director of Legal Kosta Starostin. “Our industry-leading AI models like our new Command R family will help businesses across sectors like financial services, technology, retail and more boost productivity and efficiency with their workforces.”

Cohere’s leading enterprise AI platform is built on the language of business. They are a global company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco with key offices in London and New York. Cohere’s technology is optimized for enterprise-grade generative AI, search and advanced retrieval. Cohere’s scalable AI models, Command R and R+, are multilingual in 10 languages and excel at business-critical capabilities like retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to mitigate hallucinations and tool use to build agents that can automate complex business processes. These models enable businesses to move beyond proof of concept and into production with AI. Cohere’s is also cloud-agnostic to meet companies where their data is and offers the highest levels of security and data privacy.

BSA | The Software Alliance is the leading global trade association representing makers of enterprise software and other business-facing digital services. Its members are among the world’s most innovative companies, and the association advances public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.

In the past year, BSA added several new global members including Asana, Elastic, HubSpot, PagerDuty, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, and TriNet. Learn more about BSA’s global membership here.