Cohere Signs Deal to Buy AI Cybersecurity Startup AISLE
Cohere is buying its way into cybersecurity. The Canadian AI lab said Thursday it has signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE, a San Francisco-based startup that uses AI to hunt for software vulnerabilities. It’s a move that adds a security arm to the roughly $20 billion AI group Cohere is assembling with Germany’s Aleph Alpha. The Cohere AISLE acquisition is, for now, just a letter of intent, not a signed purchase agreement, and not a closed deal. But the target is real enough. AISLE was founded in 2025 by Ondrej Vlcek, the former CEO of Czech antivirus maker Avast, with co-founders drawn from Google DeepMind and Anthropic. Reuters, the Economic Times, and Chosun Biz all reported the deal on October 15. Terms were not disclosed. ...