Aidan Gomez

Aidan Gomez holds an incredibly elite, historically significant academic background in artificial intelligence. While studying at the University of Toronto under deep learning pioneers, he interned at Google Brain, where he co-authored the legendary 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need,' which invented the Transformer architecture. This massive, unprecedented background in inventing the foundational technology behind modern LLMs gave him the exact technical credibility to launch Cohere.

Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cohere, Inc. In 2017, while working at Google Brain at just twenty years of age, Gomez co-authored the seminal research paper 'Attention Is All You Need' alongside seven other researchers, introducing the Transformer architecture that became the foundational catalyst for modern generative artificial intelligence. In 2019, Gomez co-founded Cohere in Toronto to translate transformer research into secure, privacy-first software for global enterprises. As CEO, Gomez has raised over $900 million in institutional capital, secured strategic alliances with Oracle, AWS, and Fujitsu, and built Cohere into a $5.5 billion enterprise AI leader generating over $50 million in annual revenue. Gomez's technical legacy is immortalized through his co-authorship of 'Attention Is All You Need', which formulated the self-attention equations that power the global AI revolution. At Cohere, Gomez directs long-term research vision, corporate capital formation, and strategic cloud alliances. A passionate advocate for responsible enterprise AI, Gomez frequently advises international policymakers, economic summits, and enterprise boards on sovereign AI infrastructure, data governance, and the commercialization of machine learning.