Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez | |
|---|---|
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |
| Education | University of Toronto University of Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | CEO, Cohere |
| Website | aidangomez |
Aidan Gomez is a British-Canadian[1] computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, with a focus on natural language processing.[2] He is the co-founder and CEO of the technology company Cohere.[3][4]
Early life and education
Gomez grew up in Brighton, Ontario.[5] He graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics.[6] He was pursuing a PhD in computer science from the University of Oxford.[7] He paused his studies to launch Cohere; however, he ultimately was granted the PhD in 2024.[8]
Career
In 2017, as a 20 year-old intern at
As a PhD student, Gomez worked as a machine learning researcher at Google Brain.[7] At that time, he co-authored the paper "One Model to Learn Them All" about multi-task learning by a single neural network.[6]
In 2019, Gomez left Google Brain to launch Cohere, an enterprise-focused company that helps businesses implement AI into chatbots, search engines, and other products.[3][4][14] He is CEO of the company, which has been valued at over $2 billion.[4]
Gomez was named to the 2023 Time 100/AI list of the most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence.[3] He and his fellow Cohere founders Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst were named number 1 on 2023 Maclean's AI Trailblazers Power List.[12]
References
- ^ Kokalitcheva, Kia (2 July 2023). "What they're saying: Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez". Axios. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ Watson, H.G. (19 July 2022). "Toronto Start-up Cohere Is Teaching Machines to Speak Our Language". Canadian Business. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Chow, Andrew (7 September 2023). "Time100 AI". Time. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ a b c d Metz, Cade (2 May 2023). "Generative A.I. Start-Up Cohere Valued at About $2 Billion in Funding Round". New York Times. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ Castaldo, Joe (26 October 2022). "Lost in translation". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ a b Haikara, Nina (21 June 2017). "Making an impact: U of T undergrad co-authors important machine learning study at Google". U of T News. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ a b c Harris, Jeremie (12 June 2019). "Oxford's Aidan Gomez on working at Google and the quest for general intelligence". Towards Data Science. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ https://twitter.com/aidangomez/status/1789569124688896022
- ^ Vaswani, Ashish; Shazeer, Noam; Parmar, Niki; Uszkoreit, Jakob; Jones, Llion; Gomez, Aidan N; Kaiser, Łukasz; Polosukhin, Illia (2017). "Attention is All you Need" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. Curran Associates, Inc.
- ^ Hammond, George (15 June 2023). "Aidan Gomez: AI threat to human existence is 'absurd' distraction from real risks". Financial Times. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ Olson, Parmy (12 July 2023). "Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost". Bloomberg. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ a b Watson, H.G. (16 March 2023). "The Power List: Ivan Zhang, Aidan Gomez & Nick Frosst are creating a smarter, friendlier chatbot". Maclean's. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ Goldman, Sharon (14 June 2022). "Google Brain alum to helm new nonprofit AI research lab". VentureBeat. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ^ "Aidan Gomez on Building an AI Business". Radical Ventures. Retrieved 6 November 2023.