Biography:Aidan Gomez

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Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez at Collision 2023.jpg
Born
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EducationUniversity of Toronto
University of Oxford
OccupationCEO, Cohere
Websiteaidangomez.ca

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 is pursuing a PhD in computer science from the University of Oxford.[7]

Career

In 2017, as a 20 year-old intern at Google Brain, Gomez was one of eight authors of the research paper "Attention Is All You Need",[8] which is credited with changing the AI industry and helping lead to the creation of ChatGPT.[3][4][9][10] The paper proposed a novel deep learning architecture called the transformer, that enables machine learning models to analyze large amounts of data for patterns, and then use those patterns to make predictions. It has been commonly adopted for training large language models and in the development of generative AI.[3][11] In 2017, Gomez founded FOR.ai,[7] a program to help researchers learn machine learning techniques in a collaborative format, which later became Cohere For AI.[12]

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][13] 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.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Kokalitcheva, Kia (2 July 2023). "What they're saying: Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez". Axios. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/01/cohere-ceo-aiden-gomez-interview. 
  2. ↑ Watson, H.G. (19 July 2022). "Toronto Start-up Cohere Is Teaching Machines to Speak Our Language". Canadian Business. https://canadianbusiness.com/ideas/cohere-ai/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chow, Andrew (7 September 2023). "Time100 AI". Time. https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6310653/aidan-gomez/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Metz, Cade (2 May 2023). "Generative A.I. Start-Up Cohere Valued at About $2 Billion in Funding Round". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/technology/generative-ai-start-up-cohere-funding.html. 
  5. ↑ Castaldo, Joe (26 October 2022). "Lost in translation". Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-cohere-ai-software-launch/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Haikara, Nina (21 June 2017). "Making an impact: U of T undergrad co-authors important machine learning study at Google". U of T News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/making-impact-u-t-undergrad-co-authors-important-machine-learning-study-google. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Harris, Jeremie (12 June 2019). "Oxford's Aidan Gomez on working at Google and the quest for general intelligence". Towards Data Science. https://towardsdatascience.com/google-brains-aidan-gomez-on-oxford-google-and-general-intelligence-2ce4a19ba5da. 
  8. ↑ Vaswani, Ashish; Shazeer, Noam; Parmar, Niki; Uszkoreit, Jakob; Jones, Llion; Gomez, Aidan N; Kaiser, Łukasz; Polosukhin, Illia (2017). "Attention is All you Need". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Curran Associates, Inc.) 30. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf. 
  9. ↑ Hammond, George (15 June 2023). "Aidan Gomez: AI threat to human existence is ‘absurd’ distraction from real risks". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/732fc372-67ea-4684-9ab7-6b6f3cdfd736. 
  10. ↑ Olson, Parmy (12 July 2023). "Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2023-07-13/ex-google-scientists-kickstarted-the-generative-ai-era-of-chatgpt-midjourney. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Watson, H.G. (16 March 2023). "The Power List: Ivan Zhang, Aidan Gomez & Nick Frosst are creating a smarter, friendlier chatbot". Maclean's. https://macleans.ca/technology-3/ai-power-list-cohere-chatbot/. 
  12. ↑ Goldman, Sharon (14 June 2022). "Google Brain alum to helm new nonprofit AI research lab". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-brain-alum-to-helm-new-nonprofit-ai-research-lab/. 
  13. ↑ "Aidan Gomez on Building an AI Business". Radical Ventures. https://radical.vc/radical-reads-aidan-gomez-on-building-an-ai-business/. 



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