Indra Group joins forces with cohere to drive international cooperation in sovereign AI between Spain and Canada

Indra Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Canadian company, Cohere, specializing in artificial intelligence to collaborate on the development of sovereign AI solutions in Spain, Canada and throughout Europe. The collaboration will be implemented through IndraMind, the group's technological initiative focused on deploying sovereign intelligence for the protection of critical assets.

The MoU forms part of a cooperation framework promoted by the Governments of Canada and Spain to promote bilateral agreements in technology and sovereign AI, and to boost economic activity involving the two countries. It was signed in Canada during the institutional visit headed by His Majesty King Felipe VI and Carlos Cuerpo, First Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, together with a delegation of strategic companies.

Within the above framework, IndraMind will ensure access to the infrastructure key to operating sovereign AI solutions and work together with Cohere and leading domestic companies in both jurisdictions to promote a unique ecosystem of collaboration and innovation. Upon this basis, IndraMind will contribute sovereign computing and data management capabilities, while Cohere will provide sovereign large language models. Moreover, the partnership envisages the development of additional capabilities adapted to the official languages of Spain (Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, Basque, and Galician), as well as their integration into IndraMind's intelligence ecosystem.

Indra Group CEO in North America, Jacinto Monge declared that "the agreement with Cohere strengthens our strategic conviction that, in order to build sovereign and competitive capabilities, we need to connect ecosystems between allied regions such as Canada and Spain, pooling our talent, industry, and innovation. In critical areas such as defence, industrialization, and supply chain resilience, collaboration between governments and companies is the lever that will accelerate real results and create a framework of trust to scale solutions with a global impact. As part of this endeavor, IndraMind will provide a sovereign technological base to protect critical assets and transform data into decisions, with the autonomy and control required by highly sensitive scenarios".

Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere adds,"enterprises no longer want to rent AI - they want to own it. Our partnership with Indra Group is designed to deliver true digital sovereignty, giving organizations full control over performance, data access, and deployment. Cohere brings AI to wherever data actually lives - across cloud, VPC, on-premises, and even fully airgapped environments. This isn't just a technological shift; it's about empowering governments and companies with the independence they need to compete and thrive across Europe, Canada, and beyond."

Agentic AI to drive the internationalization of SMEs

Against this backdrop, the development of an AI platform geared towards SMEs is planned, with a view to strengthening the economic fabrics of the two countries, facilitating these companies' use of advanced technology, and opening up new commercial opportunities between regions. Indra Group and Cohere will thereby democratize smaller companies' access to state-of-the-art AI solutions and, at the same time, foster trade relations between territories with a practical approach, boosting business growth and helping protect international supply chains, which are regarded as of strategic interest in the current geopolitical context.

The platform will be designed to collect and process business intelligence, build growth scenarios (with the likelihood of success and potential action plans), and support decision-making by management teams, especially during internationalization processes. To strengthen trust, the approach will include a verification layer supported by public entities and institutional sources to validate essential information on participating companies (e.g. their registration and compliance status), thereby reducing friction when it comes to generating business opportunities.

Furthermore, the agreement calls for the use of agentic AI through "digital assistants" capable of acting on behalf of each company to search for opportunities, filter potential partners, put forward alternatives, and prepare next steps, providing specialized support on a constant basis. The framework also includes a "marketplace" of agents (e.g. for trade matters), in such a way that companies can use these assistants on demand to automate parts of their strategies. The effective closure of agreements and the final decision will continue to depend on the human factor, although the agentic support will lead to faster progress on formal issues, without replacing actual negotiations between companies.

Defence and intelligence: support during decision-making

Finally, the MoU incorporates a line of cooperation in defence aimed at developing and implementing solutions that can contribute to improving analysis, mission-planning and interoperability during multinational exercises and operations.

It includes the evolution of AI-assisted command and control capabilities for the purpose of integrating information from multiple sources and presenting it in a clearer and more accessible manner, in order to support teams in planning and executing scenarios while offering recommendations and options for action.