Canada-based Cohere and Germany-based Aleph Alpha agree to a merger valuing the combination at ~$20B, to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal news ft.com

Financial Times: Canada-based Cohere and Germany-based Aleph Alpha agree to a merger valuing the combination at ~$20B, to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal  —  Canadian and German start-ups to focus on ‘sovereign’ AI systems independent of US and China