Cohere has announced the beta launch of Safety Modes, a new feature in the Cohere Chat API designed to give enterprise customers greater control over model guardrails. This feature allows businesses to customize AI model outputs to suit their specific safety requirements, enhancing confidence in the models while accommodating various use cases and business needs. Safety Modes offer two distinct settings: Strict Mode, which avoids sensitive topics and is ideal for corporate environments, and Contextual Mode, which allows for more creative interactions while maintaining core protections. The new feature aims to address the "all or nothing" challenge of setting safety levels in large language models and is available with the updated Command R series of models. Cohere is seeking user feedback to refine these modes further, with plans to introduce additional modes in the future.