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#41Founder/CEOFoundation Models & LLMs
Aidan Gomez
Cohere
"The Transformer architecture was written on a whiteboard in about an afternoon."
Biography
CEO & Co-founder of Cohere. Co-author of Attention Is All You Need at age 20. Enterprise-focused LLMs.
💡 My Take
Gomez represents the next generation — co-authoring the most important AI paper of the decade at 20. His enterprise-first approach with Cohere contrasts with OpenAI's consumer play. Watch how Cohere's RAG capabilities evolve; they're building for the boring-but-massive enterprise market.
Key Influence
Co-authored the Transformer paper at age 20. Built Cohere into a leading enterprise LLM company.
📄 Research Papers
Awards & Recognition
Forbes 30 Under 30, Globe and Mail Top 40 Under 40