Cohere on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/cohere/Recent content in Cohere on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:31:30 +0000US startups swap OpenAI for Chinese models; Salesforce and Anthropic go all-inhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-founders/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:31:30 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-founders/US founders are routing real workloads to Chinese open-weight models after DeepSeek V4 Flash and Xiaomi&rsquo;s MiMo V2.5 priced tokens at roughly a tenth of GPT-5.5. Salesforce and Anthropic formalised a Claudeforce deal that pushes Claude into every agent surface and ships 37 Salesforce skills into Claude itself, with Salesforce expecting about $300M in Anthropic token spend this year. SaaStr&rsquo;s Jason Lemkin argues most B2B CEOs are only ~40% of the way through genuinely rebuilding for AI, citing a public-comp base where 34 of 58 SaaS names now grow between 10 and 30%. Cohere launched Parse, a vision-language document model at $1.50 per 1,000 pages. A YC investor study of 642 companies found priced-above-median startups reached Series A 25% of the time versus 8% for priced-below.