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Aidan Gomez

3 entries · February 2022 – September 2026

Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and chief executive of Cohere, a Toronto-based company building large language models for enterprise use. As a Google Brain intern he was one of the co-authors of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced the transformer architecture underlying modern language models; he co-founded Cohere in 2019.

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  • Models & capabilities 1
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  1. Cohere and Aleph Alpha agree to merge

    The deal, valued at roughly $20bn, gives Cohere shareholders about 90% of the combined firm and Aleph Alpha's shareholders about 10%.

    Cohere, Aleph AlphaMoney & business · Labs & people

  2. Cohere releases Command R+

    Launched first on Microsoft Azure, the larger companion to March's Command R kept the same 128K context but was pitched as competitive with GPT-4-class models.

    Cohere, MicrosoftModels & capabilities · Benchmarks & progress

  3. Cohere raises a $125 million Series B

    Tiger Global led the round, taking the Toronto language-model company past $170 million raised and marking early investor appetite for OpenAI competitors.

    CohereMoney & business · Labs & people