{"id":594429,"date":"2026-04-10T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:58:10","slug":"canadas-cohere-germanys-aleph-alpha-in-merger-talks-handelsblatt-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594429\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Cohere, Germany&#8217;s Aleph Alpha in merger talks, Handelsblatt reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">FRANKFURT, April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial intelligence<\/a> companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of \u200cGermany are in talks to merge \u200cand have Berlin&#8217;s support for a potential deal, newspaper Handelsblatt \u200breported late on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Citing government and industry sources, the paper said that the German government would be willing to become a key customer of \u200ca combined company, \u2060part of a push to provide digital public services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;If leading AI companies \u2060from Canada and Germany were to join forces that would send a very strong signal,&#8221; \u200bGerman Digital \u200bMinister Karsten Wildberger told \u200bthe paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Germany and \u200cCanada were already collaborating closely in the field, he was also quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Aleph Alpha told Reuters that regular discussions over strategic partnerships were standard practice in the AI industry and \u200cthat Aleph Alpha had its \u200bown independent strategy, declining to \u200bcomment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Cohere \u200bdid not immediately respond to a \u200crequest for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The paper added \u200bthat talks \u200bstarted early this year and have reached an advanced stage, with plans for the \u200bnew entity \u200cto be headquartered in both countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bLudwig Burger, Kirsti Knolle and Hakan Ersen, \u200bEditing by Linda Pasquini)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFURT, April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of \u200cGermany are in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[225866,276,49,48,10816,225867,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-594429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-aleph-alpha","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-industry-sources","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}