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Aidan Gomez - Co-founder and CEO of Cohere

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Aidan Gomez is a Canadian computer scientist. He co-authored the seminal Transformer paper and co-founded Cohere, an enterprise AI startup.

Introduction

Aidan Gomez is a Canadian computer scientist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere, a company that designs large language models for enterprise customers.

Transformer Architecture

As a student researcher at Google Brain, Gomez co-authored the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer network architecture. This architecture subsequently enabled modern generative LLMs.

Enterprise Cohere

In 2019, Gomez co-founded Cohere to build scalable, secure language models. Cohere focuses on secure enterprise deployments, helping businesses integrate search, chat, and classification agents.

Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez
Company Cohere
Country Canada
Born May 12, 1996 (age 30)
Toronto, Canada
Education University of Toronto, Oxford University (PhD)
Notable work Transformer Architecture ("Attention Is All You Need"), Cohere Command models
Title Co-founder & CEO of Cohere

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