Cohere has announced a proposed agreement to acquire AISLE, a cybersecurity company developing autonomous AI systems that discover, validate, and help remediate previously unknown vulnerabilities in critical software.
The proposed acquisition will expand Cohere’s sovereign AI platform with additional cybersecurity capabilities and support the launch of a new business called Cohere Cyber. Cohere said the combination is intended to bring together frontier AI models, agentic applications, secure deployment infrastructure, governance, and advanced cybersecurity technology as enterprises and governments move AI systems into increasingly sensitive production environments.
AISLE was founded in 2024 and develops systems that combine foundation models, specialized cybersecurity expertise, large-scale code analysis, validation, and automated remediation. During its first year out of stealth, AISLE discovered more than 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities that were assigned CVEs across more than 100 codebases.
Cohere said those discoveries included all 12 vulnerabilities included in OpenSSL’s January security release and 18 of the 24 CVEs in curl’s latest release. The vulnerabilities were independently reviewed by the software maintainers involved.
The acquisition also expands Cohere’s presence in Europe following its acquisitions of Reliant AI and Aleph Alpha. Cohere plans a substantial long-term investment in Prague, where AISLE already operates, with the city becoming the company’s global center for AI cybersecurity and autonomous security systems.
AISLE’s three founders will assume senior positions within Cohere. Ondrej Vlcek will become Senior Vice President of Cohere Cyber and lead the newly formed global cybersecurity business. Jaya Baloo will become Cohere’s Chief Information Security Officer, while Stanislav Fort will become Vice President of AI Security and participate in the company’s core model research and training efforts.
For customers, Cohere expects AISLE’s technology to strengthen security and threat detection across enterprise and public-sector AI deployments, improve governance and monitoring of autonomous agents, protect sensitive data and mission-critical systems, and support deployments in private cloud, on-premises, and fully air-gapped environments.
Cohere also expects the integration to support development of AI systems that can continuously identify, prioritize, validate, and respond to software vulnerabilities. The company sees cybersecurity research as another potential way to evaluate and improve future frontier models because vulnerabilities represent difficult problems with outcomes that can often be objectively verified.
