As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/cohere-aleph-alpha-germany-ai-europe-expansion.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260424/i16.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260424/p16#a260424p16" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Kai Nicol-Schwarz / <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/cohere-aleph-alpha-germany-ai-europe-expansion.html">As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Canadian AI lab Cohere announced on Friday that it planned to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, as it eyed major expansion in Europe.</p>