Aidan Gomez is a British-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur, renowned for his AI startup, Cohere. Gomez grew up in Brighton, Ontario, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Toronto.
As a 20-year-old intern at Google Brain, he co-authored the seminal paper ‘Attention Is All You Need’, introducing the transformative neural network architecture known as the Transformer, which has been pivotal in the development of large language models like ChatGPT.
Gomez later founded Cohere in 2019, an enterprise-focused AI company valued at over $2 billion, where he serves as CEO. His work has been recognised globally, including being named to the 2023 Time 100/AI list and the Maclean’s AI Trailblazers Power List. Gomez holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Oxford, which he completed in 2024, and has collaborated with AI luminaries such as Geoffrey Hinton and Jeff Dean.
His vision for AI focuses on practical deployment and improving customer support through AI-driven solutions.