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About
At twenty, as a Google Brain intern, Aidan Gomez co-authored “Attention Is All You Need” — the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer and underpins essentially every large language model since. Then he built a company on it. He co-founded Cohere in Toronto in 2019 with Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, selling enterprise and sovereign AI to banks, governments, healthcare and defence on a deliberate pitch: customers keep control of their own data rather than routing it through American hyperscalers. Cohere raised about $1.6 billion, reached a $7 billion valuation in 2025 and roughly $240 million of annual recurring revenue, and in April 2026 merged with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a deal valuing the combined transatlantic company at about $20 billion. He finished the Oxford doctorate he had paused to start the company, taking it in 2024.
Beyond investing
- Education
- Read computer science and mathematics at the University of Toronto and completed the Oxford doctorate he had paused to start Cohere, taking it in 2024.
- More
- Founded the research collective FOR.ai in 2017, now Cohere Labs, and joined Rivian's board in April 2025.
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Co-founder & CEO at Cohere
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Co-founders at Cohere
Podcasts & interviews
featuring Aidan GomezGoogle's AI leadership shake-up is 'a huge shock,' says Cohere's Aidan Gomez
CNBC Television
Cohere's Aidan Gomez on AI's pricing divide, plus Big Tech earnings — 4/30/2026
CNBC Television
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Kleiner Perkins
Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
No Priors Ep. 91 | With Cohere Co-Founder and CEO Aidan Gomez
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups
The year of scaling AI, with Cohere's Aidan Gomez
Azeem Azhar
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Aidan Gomez?
- At twenty, as a Google Brain intern, Aidan Gomez co-authored “Attention Is All You Need” — the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer and underpins essentially every large language model since. Then he built a company on it. He co-founded Cohere in Toronto in 2019 with Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, selling enterprise and sovereign AI to banks, governments, healthcare and defence on a deliberate pitch: customers keep control of their own data rather than routing it through American hyperscalers. Cohere raised about $1.6 billion, reached a $7 billion valuation in 2025 and roughly $240 million of annual recurring revenue, and in April 2026 merged with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a deal valuing the combined transatlantic company at about $20 billion. He finished the Oxford doctorate he had paused to start the company, taking it in 2024.
- Where does Aidan Gomez work?
- Aidan Gomez is Co-founder & CEO of Cohere.
- What companies did Aidan Gomez found?
- Aidan Gomez founded Cohere.
- What podcasts and interviews feature Aidan Gomez?
- Tracked appearances include "Google's AI leadership shake-up is 'a huge shock,' says Cohere's Aidan Gomez", "Cohere's Aidan Gomez on AI's pricing divide, plus Big Tech earnings — 4/30/2026", "Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez", and 3 more.