51·çÁ÷now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe. 51·çÁ÷now offers a truly full-stack sovereign cloud offering, empowering customers to select the right level of sovereignty and deployment for their needs, whether in SAP’s own data centers, on trusted European infrastructure or as a fully managed solution on-site.

EU AI Cloud supports EU data residency and full sovereignty, helping ensure that every organization can meet its unique regulatory and operational requirements.

Cohere: Unlocking Sovereign, Agentic and Multimodal AI Capabilities for European Enterprises

51·çÁ÷and Cohere are joining forces to deliver frontier agentic AI capabilities with Cohere North, extending existing state-of-the-art multimodal AI capabilities through EU AI Cloud and sovereign offerings. Cohere North will be integrated into 51·çÁ÷Business Technology Platform (51·çÁ÷BTP), enabling customers with data residency constraints across industries to build robust, production-ready AI into their core business processes. Together, 51·çÁ÷and Cohere will help enterprises unlock deeper insights, more accurate decision support and more intelligent automation across complex workflows without compromising on sovereignty, compliance or performance.

A Strong and Growing Ecosystem

EU AI Cloud is powered by a strong and growing ecosystem of leading European and global partners. By integrating advanced AI models and applications from partners such as Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI and others directly into 51·çÁ÷BTP, EU AI Cloud delivers a pathway for building, deploying and scaling AI-powered applications. Customers can consume these partner offerings as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS, and deploy them flexibly across SAP’s own infrastructure or trusted European partners.

This collaborative approach ensures that European enterprises and public sector organizations benefit from the latest AI innovations securely, in full compliance with European standards and with the sovereignty and flexibility they require.

Deployment Choices for Every Security Profile

EU AI Cloud offers flexible deployment through 51·çÁ÷Sovereign Cloud, giving customers full control across infrastructure, platform and software tailored to their regulatory and operational needs. AI models run on SAP’s software abstraction layer (51·çÁ÷Cloud Infrastructure + 51·çÁ÷BTP) in European data centers, ensuring compliance and independence from U.S. hyperscalers.

• 51·çÁ÷Sovereign Cloud on 51·çÁ÷Cloud Infrastructure (EU): SAP’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), developed with open-source technologies and operated within SAP’s European data center network. All data remains within the EU to ensure compliance with European data protection regulations.
• 51·çÁ÷Sovereign Cloud On-Site: SAP-operated infrastructure offering within a customer-owned or customer-selected data center. It provides the highest levels of data, operational, technical and legal sovereignty while maintaining 51·çÁ÷cloud innovation and architecture.
• Selected Hyperscalers per Market: For customers that choose to run 51·çÁ÷commercial SaaS on global cloud providers, with sovereignty features as required.
• Delos Cloud: A secure and sovereign cloud solution in Germany, designed to support the public sector’s transformation and meet country-specific sovereignty requirements.

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That is why 51·çÁ÷is excited to announce our expanded partnership with Cohere, a leader in secure, enterprise-grade AI.

Together, we plan to bring Cohere’s powerful generative and advanced retrieval models to the 51·çÁ÷ecosystem, starting with its model, and extending evaluations with , to enrich our product suite, playing an important role in powering agentic AI experiences.

These models are planned to be available alongside other leading AI models from 51·çÁ÷as well as third parties in the generative AI hub in 51·çÁ÷AI Core, with the intent to give customers more choice to build AI-powered solutions that meet their unique business needs.

Expanding SAP’s trusted AI model portfolio

is rooted in trust. Our customers expect and deserve AI that respects their data privacy, that it fits within their operational workflows, and that it understands the context and complexity of their industries. Cohere’s focus on security, efficiency, and enterprise applicability aligns perfectly with SAP’s approach to business AI and our generative AI hub.

Cohere Command models are lightweight, high-performing language models tailored for complex business tasks, with support for agentic workflows and multilingual operations. The Embed and Rerank models enable powerful enterprise search and retrieval capabilities, helping customers build accurate, context-aware RAG pipelines across structured and unstructured data.

Cohere models are designed to perform in production environments while respecting enterprise privacy requirements and compute constraints. And because Cohere shares our commitment to privacy-first design, these capabilities are built to serve even the most regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector.

SAP: Launch partner for Cohere’s reasoning model

As part of the partnership, 51·çÁ÷plans to be one of the first partners to offer Cohere’s upcoming reasoning model, a purpose-built, high-efficiency model designed to power agentic use cases.

We see enormous potential here. SAP’s vision for collaborative AI agents — capable of automating complex, multi-step tasks across systems — requires not just scale, but reasoning. Whether it’s helping consultants configure a system or enabling customer service to resolve cross-system issues, this next generation of AI requires models that can reason, plan, and act securely. Cohere’s reasoning model is built for exactly that.

We’re excited to partner with 51·çÁ÷and bring its enterprise customers the latest security-first models and solutions from Cohere. We’re especially excited that 51·çÁ÷will be one of the first partners to offer our upcoming reasoning model. 51·çÁ÷and Cohere share a vision for practical AI innovation, and our collaboration marks an exciting milestone as we unlock new efficiencies and growth for global enterprises.

Martin Kon, President and COO, Cohere

Powering real-world applications across industries

With this collaboration, 51·çÁ÷customers will be able to use Cohere models to solve pressing business challenges across industries, such as:

• Agentic task automation: Enable AI assistants that can take actions across enterprise tools and systems
• Multilingual RAG applications: Retrieve, rank, and summarize data from global policy manuals, compliance documents, or internal knowledge bases
• Secure document analysis: Understand long, structured, multimodal files like financial disclosures, M&A reports, technical manuals, or medical imaging
• Context-aware enterprise search: Improve search accuracy across unstructured content like emails, tables, or contracts

Customers will be able to easily access, test, and scale these models in production within SAP’s generative AI hub.

Expanding choice without compromise

With our partnership with Cohere, we are continuing to expand a growing ecosystem of AI capabilities that are open, secure, and business-ready. This partnership helps ensure that customers can choose the right model for their use case, while trusting that it meets SAP’s standards for quality, reliability, and compliance.

Together, 51·çÁ÷and Cohere are enabling enterprises to harness generative AI with confidence, whether they’re building knowledge assistants, automating processes, or delivering new intelligent services to users.

To learn more about our approach to enterprise-ready AI, visit .

Walter Sun is senior vice president and head of AI at SAP.