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<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Cohere hit $240 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2025, up 287% year-over-year from $62 million at the end of 2024, surpassing its internal $200 million target.</li><li>In April 2026, Schwarz Group committed €500 million (approximately $600 million) in structured financing as lead investor for Cohere&#39;s Series E round, which CFO Francois Chadwick said is expected to close within the next few months.</li><li>The company generates approximately 85% of its revenue from private deployments, with large enterprise customers including Oracle, Fujitsu, RBC, LG, and Notion signing multi-year contracts that provide revenue visibility.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Cohere hit $240 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2025, up 287% year-over-year from $62 million at the end of 2024, surpassing its internal $200 million target.In April 2026, Schwarz Group committed €500 million (approximately $600 million) in structured financing as lead investor for Cohere&#39;s Series E round, which CFO Francois Chadwick said is expected to close within the next few months.The company generates approximately 85% of its revenue from private deployments, with large enterprise customers including Oracle, Fujitsu, RBC, LG, and Notion signing multi-year contracts that provide revenue visibility.

<ul><li>Governments worldwide have $100B+ committed towards building sovereign AI, setting off a global race between OpenAI & Anthropic, Chinese labs, Gulf state megaprojects, and US hyperscalers.</li><li>The irony of sovereign AI is that US hyperscalers have become some of its biggest beneficiaries, with AWS launching its European Sovereign Cloud in January 2026.</li><li>As sovereign AI spending surpasses $100B in global commitments, the forward tension is between countries that can compete on technological capability—like France with Mistral and Canada with Cohere.</li></ul>

Governments worldwide have $100B+ committed towards building sovereign AI, setting off a global race between OpenAI & Anthropic, Chinese labs, Gulf state megaprojects, and US hyperscalers.The irony of sovereign AI is that US hyperscalers have become some of its biggest beneficiaries, with AWS launching its European Sovereign Cloud in January 2026.As sovereign AI spending surpasses $100B in global commitments, the forward tension is between countries that can compete on technological capability—like France with Mistral and Canada with Cohere.

<ul><li>Cohere shifted focus to training & deploying LLMs in private cloud or on-prem for customers in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government, defense).</li><li>Cohere hit $150M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in October 2025, up from $100M in May 2025 and $22M in March 2024, valued at $7B as of September 2025 for a 46.7x revenue multiple.</li><li>CEO Aidan Gomez says the company expects to go public "soon", with Cohere "on a clear path to profitability" & expecting to turn a profit before 2029.</li></ul>

Cohere shifted focus to training & deploying LLMs in private cloud or on-prem for customers in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government, defense).Cohere hit $150M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in October 2025, up from $100M in May 2025 and $22M in March 2024, valued at $7B as of September 2025 for a 46.7x revenue multiple.CEO Aidan Gomez says the company expects to go public "soon", with Cohere "on a clear path to profitability" & expecting to turn a profit before 2029.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that OpenAI hit $50B in annualized revenue in September 2026, up from $20B at the end of 2025.</li><li>On June 8, 2026, OpenAI filed confidentially with the SEC for an IPO targeting a valuation exceeding $1 trillion, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the process.</li><li>OpenAI’s approximately $6.5B acquisition of io brought a dedicated hardware team into the company in July 2025, with Jony Ive and LoveFrom remaining independent design partners.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that OpenAI hit $50B in annualized revenue in September 2026, up from $20B at the end of 2025.On June 8, 2026, OpenAI filed confidentially with the SEC for an IPO targeting a valuation exceeding $1 trillion, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the process.OpenAI’s approximately $6.5B acquisition of io brought a dedicated hardware team into the company in July 2025, with Jony Ive and LoveFrom remaining independent design partners.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that OpenEvidence hit $300M in annualized revenue in July 2026, up from $150M at the end of 2025.</li><li>OpenEvidence grew from $7.9M in annualized revenue at the end of 2024 to $150M at the end of 2025, up approximately 1,800% year-over-year, with reported 90% gross margins.</li><li>OpenEvidence’s latest $250M raise in September 2026 valued the company at $15B, implying approximately 50x its $300M annualized revenue.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that OpenEvidence hit $300M in annualized revenue in July 2026, up from $150M at the end of 2025.OpenEvidence grew from $7.9M in annualized revenue at the end of 2024 to $150M at the end of 2025, up approximately 1,800% year-over-year, with reported 90% gross margins.OpenEvidence’s latest $250M raise in September 2026 valued the company at $15B, implying approximately 50x its $300M annualized revenue.

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