Cohere has completed its acquisition of AISLE and welcomed the team behind cubic, the company announced on November 13. The two moves add cyber defense and secure code review to the sovereign AI platform Cohere sells to enterprises and governments.
Financial terms were not disclosed for either deal. The two additions close out a year of dealmaking for Cohere, which counts four strategic transactions in 2026.
AISLE becomes Cohere Cyber
AISLE builds autonomous systems that find, validate and fix software vulnerabilities. Its work now forms the foundation of Cohere Cyber, a new cybersecurity business aimed at enterprises, governments and operators of critical infrastructure.
The three AISLE co-founders are taking senior roles at Cohere. Ondrej Vlcek becomes senior vice president of Cohere Cyber and will lead the new business. Jaya Baloo becomes chief information security officer, and Stanislav Fort becomes vice president of AI security.
Cohere also plans a substantial long-term investment in Prague, where AISLE is based. The city will become the company’s global center for AI cybersecurity and autonomous security systems. About 50 AISLE employees are joining Cohere, which employs more than 800 people.
Cubic brings secure code review
cubic builds an AI-powered code review platform that helps engineering teams review changes, find bugs and vulnerabilities, understand complex codebases and fix issues automatically. Its review agents rank among the strongest performers on code review benchmarks, according to Cohere.
The cubic team will establish Cohere’s secure coding vertical, bringing enterprise-grade coding capabilities into the platform. The team is led by founder and chief executive Paul Sanglé-Ferrière.
The platform was built for the environments many enterprise customers operate in, including on-premises and air-gapped deployments. That fits Cohere’s pitch to regulated industries that want AI running inside their own infrastructure.
Four deals in one year
The two deals follow Cohere’s purchase of Reliant AI this year and its agreement to merge with Aleph Alpha. Cohere flagged its intent to acquire AISLE on October 15. The company said the future of AI depends on securing both AI systems and the software behind them.
Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang. It builds AI models and an agent platform for enterprises and governments that need to run AI inside private clouds, on-premises systems and air-gapped networks.
“Together, these additions strengthen the sovereign AI platform we’re building for organizations around the world.”
Cohere, in its announcement
Cohere says the combination of frontier models, secure deployment, cyber defense and purpose-built applications is aimed at organizations that want AI capability without giving up control of their data and infrastructure. You can explore more AI companies in our startup directory.
