> cohere's Command R+ is also available and while less capable, for instruction following, I believe its superior to Anthropic's models

My experience recently is that its actually noticeably better for instruction following than Claude, but can be finicky if you're not careful about adhering to the prompt template. But between the RAG and multi-step tool use capabilities, even if it was slightly worse on the instruction-following side of things I'd still say, as you do, thats its much better than Claude on average.

Agree on titan as well. I recently was forced into a meeting with our AWS TAM, and they kept shoehorning Q into every conversation. I held my tongue knowing that titan was the model powering it under the hood.