Cohere hires longtime Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research.
- Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere’s research, product, and policy teams.
- The hire comes at a pivotal moment for Cohere: the company just raised $500 million at a $6.8 billion valuation.
- Cohere primarily builds AI applications that can solve practical problems for enterprises and government agencies, emphasizing privacy and security.
- But while its rivals are trying to develop AI systems that can match (or exceed) human performance on a wide variety of tasks, Cohere has a narrower focus.
Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion on their [+5474 chars]
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