BCE Inc. has reached an agreement to provide Cohere Inc. and other Canadian companies with data center capacity and computing resources to run artificial intelligence models. The deal continues BCE’s ongoing effort to expand its AI strategy and support the deployment of AI services for enterprise customers. The arrangement builds on a prior relationship between BCE and Cohere: BCE first partnered with the AI startup nearly a year earlier to integrate Cohere’s models into its enterprise offerings. Under the new agreement, BCE supplies the infrastructure needed to power AI workloads, aligning telecom and cloud-like capacity with AI development and deployment. While the sources describe the nature of the partnership—data center capacity and compute—they do not specify financial terms, the size of the capacity commitment, or timelines for delivery. The reports frame the announcement as part of BCE’s broader move to strengthen its position in the AI market by offering both technology integration and underlying computing resources.