Cohere provides natural language processing (NLP) models and APIs for text generation, classification, and semantic search, enabling businesses to build AI-powered applications.
Hex is a collaborative analytics workspace designed for data teams, incorporating natural language to SQL capabilities to streamline data exploration. It provides an interactive environment where analysts can seamlessly transition between SQL, Python, and no-code workflows to build data applications and share insights. By integrating AI-driven NL-to-SQL features, Hex allows users to query data using natural language, significantly speeding up the analytical process and making data more accessibl
Last month, I watched a product manager spend forty-five minutes trying to write a SQL query just to figure out last quarter's churn rate by acquisition channel. She finally Slacked the data team, who pulled the numbers in about three minutes. It was a classic bottleneck: the business had the questions, and the data team had the keys.
This is exactly the gap that both Cohere and Hex are trying to bridge in 2026, but they approach the problem from comple