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 # Cohere Developer Experience
 
-At Cohere we aim to maximise developer productivity by meeting developers at their existing workflows: whether you want to use our model on our platform or on an external cloud platform, our aim is to provide the best experience available.
+At Cohere we aim to maximize developer productivity by meeting developers at their existing workflows: whether you want to use our model on our platform or on an external cloud platform, our aim is to provide the best experience available.
 
 This repository is a one-stop-shop for Cohere developer experience. Here you can find docs, snippets, api specs and more to help you develop on the Cohere platform, or on AWS, Azure, OCI, or cohere-toolkit.