Enterprise AI company Cohere launched its first voice model, Transcribe, an open‑source automatic speech recognition system built with 2 billion parameters. Designed for consumer‑grade GPUs, the model supports 14 languages and claims a 5.42 word‑error rate on the Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard, outperforming several competitors. Cohere plans to embed Transcribe in its North orchestration platform, offer free API access, and host it on its Model Vault service. The rollout follows reports of $240 million in annual recurring revenue and hints of a possible near‑term public listing. Read more →