April 24 : Canadian AI startup Cohere agreed on Friday to buy German tech startup Aleph Alpha at an undisclosed price as it looks to boost sales to government and business customers in highly regulated European markets. Initially seen as Germany's answer to OpenAI, Aleph Alpha has since abandoned development of large AI language models such as ChatGPT to focus on specialised AI applications for businesses, similar to Cohere. "We are bringing Aleph Alpha into Cohere, and we are going to merge