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Another doorway into the AI club
S&P Global is doing what every old-school data giant wants to do right now: make its information impossible to ignore inside the tools people are already using. The company said it’s expanding its reach through a collaboration with Cohere, bringing its financial intelligence into Cohere’s secure enterprise AI platform, North.
That means customers can tap into S&P Global data directly inside an agentic AI workflow instead of bouncing between tabs like it’s 2014 and you’re still living in spreadsheet purgatory.
Why investors should care
This isn’t just a flashy demo with a robot-sounding name. It’s a distribution play. If S&P Global’s data becomes part of the workflow — research, analysis, reporting — that can make the product stickier and potentially more valuable over time.
In plain English: the company is trying to be the intel layer underneath the AI tools financial firms actually use, not just the dusty database in the corner.
The bigger picture
S&P Global has been leaning into ways to get its data in front of customers wherever they work, and this deal fits that vibe.
- More embedded data can mean more usage
- More usage can mean stronger retention
- Stronger retention can make the whole franchise feel even more like a toll road
Big picture: AI is turning into a distribution channel as much as a technology story, and S&P Global wants a seat at that table — preferably before the robot starts handing out the invites.