News Summary

• co-founder Aidan Gomez was one of the authors of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that became the foundation of modern AI.
• Cohere has been a sleeper entrant in the AI model wars of late, dominated by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.
• Its market proposition has always been to offer secure LLMs specifically geared for enterprise use, not for consumers.
• It just nabbed long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau to be its chief AI officer.