Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez is Cohere's cofounder and CEO. He studied at the University of Toronto, worked with researchers at Google Brain, and became one of the eight authors of Attention Is All You Need in 2017. He also coauthored the Tensor2Tensor paper, connecting the Transformer with shared research software. Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019 by Gomez, Nick Frosst, and Ivan Zhang. Its products focus on AI for organizations, including models that use supplied documents and tools. The company launched an open-science initiative in 2022 and North, its workplace platform, in 2025. He earned an Oxford PhD in 2024.
Timeline
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2017
The Transformer collaboration
Gomez was one of eight authors of Attention Is All You Need.
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2018
Making the model usable
Gomez coauthored Tensor2Tensor for Neural Machine Translation with Vaswani and other colleagues.
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2019
Cohere starts in Toronto
Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019.
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2024
Models and doctoral study
Command R is a language model trained for document-grounded responses and tool use.
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Present
Leading an enterprise AI company
Gomez is Cohere’s cofounder and CEO.
Sources and credits
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