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Aidan Gomez
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Aidan Gomez

Co-authored the Transformer at 20; now runs Cohere.

b. 1995CanadaCo-founder & CEO, Cohere

An intern on 'Attention Is All You Need', which he co-authored while still an undergraduate. Founded Cohere to sell language models to enterprises rather than consumers.

Known for
Transformer architectureCohere Command

2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 2019–now7 yrsCohereCo-founder & CEO
  2. 2016–20193 yrsGoogle BrainResearcher

0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.

LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.

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