Cohere Acquires AISLE and Cubic to Add Cyber Defense and Secure Coding

Cohere announced on November 13, 2026 that it had completed its acquisition of vulnerability-discovery company AISLE and acquired AI code-review company cubic, adding cyber defense and secure software development to its sovereign AI platform. The additions bring Cohere’s completed strategic M&A transactions in 2026 to four.

AISLE had already disclosed on November 10, 2026 that its acquisition formally closed that morning and that it would serve customers as Cohere Cyber from that day. cubic separately confirmed its acquisition on November 13, so Cohere’s announcement combines the new cubic disclosure with an AISLE transaction that had already closed.

AISLE Becomes Cohere Cyber

Founded in 2024, AISLE builds autonomous systems that find previously unknown vulnerabilities in complex production software, validate them and assist with remediation. Its approach pairs foundation models with specialist security knowledge, large-scale code analysis and validated automated remediation. Cohere announced the proposed acquisition on October 15, 2026.

AISLE reported that its platform had discovered more than 650 CVEs during the 14 months preceding its November 10 announcement. Its engineers had also completed a first cyber sprint with Cohere by the formal closing. Cohere Cyber is aimed at enterprises, governments and critical-infrastructure operators, with a mission to deliver AI security across environments from cloud deployments to air-gapped networks.

AISLE’s three co-founders are taking leadership roles. Ondrej Vlcek will become senior vice president of Cohere Cyber and lead the new cybersecurity business. Jaya Baloo will become Cohere’s chief information security officer. Stanislav Fort will become vice president of AI Security, joining core model research and training and leading AI security research. Alongside those appointments, Cohere plans a substantial long-term investment in Prague, expanding AISLE’s existing presence and making the city its worldwide base for AI cybersecurity and autonomous security systems.

Cubic Keeps Its Product Running

cubic’s platform uses AI to review code changes and interpret complex codebases, identifying bugs and security vulnerabilities and remediating issues automatically. Cohere says its review agents were built for enterprise environments, including on-premises and air-gapped deployments, matching the controlled-infrastructure requirements behind the AISLE addition.

Founder and CEO Paul Sanglé-Ferrière and his team will establish Cohere’s secure coding vertical and work on integrating enterprise coding capabilities into the broader platform. For existing customers, cubic assured users that the product would remain available and fully supported, with further improvements planned and its team continuing development inside Cohere.

A Wider Sovereign AI Portfolio

Cohere’s stated strategy is to pair its models with secure infrastructure, defensive cybersecurity and applications built for particular workflows, while customers retain control of their data, infrastructure and operations. AISLE and cubic add two operational workflows to that approach: finding and fixing vulnerabilities, and reviewing and remediating code. Both are intended for organizations that require private cloud, on-premises or air-gapped operation under privacy, governance and compliance constraints.

The earlier transactions supplied other pieces of that expansion. Reliant AI, acquired on May 19, 2026, brought proprietary biomedical datasets, domain-optimized technology and healthcare expertise into Cohere’s platform, supporting its biopharma and healthcare work. Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive business-combination agreement on September 16, 2026, when the transaction still required final regulatory approvals; Cohere now counts Aleph Alpha among its completed transactions.

For Cohere, the practical significance is a broader stack around its models: cyber defense, secure coding and industry-specific applications under a common deployment strategy. The immediate execution task is to integrate those capabilities for sensitive enterprise and government environments while preserving cubic’s product continuity and building out the planned Prague security center.