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About
Nick Frosst was Geoffrey Hinton's first hire at Google Brain's Toronto lab, joining in 2016 and spending four years researching neural networks alongside the man who would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2019 he left to co-found Cohere with Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang, on the bet that a serious enterprise AI company could be built in Canada rather than Silicon Valley; it reached a $7 billion valuation and about $240 million of annual recurring revenue before merging with Germany's Aleph Alpha in 2026 at a combined value near $20 billion. He has become one of the most audible advocates for sovereign AI — systems governments and enterprises run under their own oversight. He does all this while fronting a rock band: he sings for the Toronto group Good Kid, formed in 2015 with fellow computer science students, nominated for a Juno in 2024 and now heard by millions of listeners a month.
Beyond investing
- Education
- Read computer science and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2015.
- More
- Was Geoffrey Hinton's first hire at Google Brain's Toronto lab, joining in 2016 and researching neural networks there for four years. Is one of the most audible advocates for sovereign AI — systems governments and enterprises run under their own oversight. Sings for the Toronto rock band Good Kid, formed in 2015 with fellow computer science students and nominated for a Juno in 2024.
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Founder at Cohere
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Podcasts & interviews
featuring Nick FrosstCohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice
20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cohere Co Founder Nick Frosst on Enterprise AI and Sovereignty
AI Chat
Getting realistic about AI’s potential with Nick Frosst from Cohere
TechCrunch
Cohere is "not an AGI company" - Nick Frosst (co-founder)
Machine Learning Street Talk
Nick Frosst, CTO, Cohere on Large Language Models | VUX World Live
VUX World
# 134 Cohere Co-founder Nick Frosst on Building the NLP Platform of the Future
Slator
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nick Frosst?
- Nick Frosst was Geoffrey Hinton's first hire at Google Brain's Toronto lab, joining in 2016 and spending four years researching neural networks alongside the man who would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2019 he left to co-found Cohere with Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang, on the bet that a serious enterprise AI company could be built in Canada rather than Silicon Valley; it reached a $7 billion valuation and about $240 million of annual recurring revenue before merging with Germany's Aleph Alpha in 2026 at a combined value near $20 billion. He has become one of the most audible advocates for sovereign AI — systems governments and enterprises run under their own oversight. He does all this while fronting a rock band: he sings for the Toronto group Good Kid, formed in 2015 with fellow computer science students, nominated for a Juno in 2024 and now heard by millions of listeners a month.
- Where does Nick Frosst work?
- Nick Frosst is Founder of Cohere.
- What companies did Nick Frosst found?
- Nick Frosst founded Cohere.
- What podcasts and interviews feature Nick Frosst?
- Tracked appearances include "Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice", "Cohere Co Founder Nick Frosst on Enterprise AI and Sovereignty", "Getting realistic about AI’s potential with Nick Frosst from Cohere", and 3 more.
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