AI agents are here. Here's how AI startup Cohere is deploying them for consultants and other businesses.

Cohere cofounders Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst, and Aidan Gomez.

Cohere

• Enterprise AI startup Cohere has launched a new platform called North.
• North allows users to quickly deploy AI agents to execute tasks across various business sectors.
• The company says the platform cuts the time it takes to complete a task by over five-fold.

2025 is shaping up to be the year that AI "agents" go mainstream.

Unlike AI-based chatbots that respond to user queries, agents are AI tools that work autonomously.