Nick Frosst

Nick Frosst holds an absolutely elite academic and professional background in deep learning. Before co-founding Cohere, he was specifically hired by the legendary Geoffrey Hinton to serve as the very first employee at Google Brain's Toronto laboratory. This deeply rigorous, foundational background researching neural networks alongside the 'Godfather of AI' provided Frosst with an unparalleled understanding of advanced machine learning mechanics, which he directly applied to architect Cohere's proprietary models.

Nick Frosst is a co-founder of Cohere. At Google Brain, Frosst spent years working directly alongside Geoffrey Hinton, publishing influential research on capsule networks, neural interpretability, and adversarial robustness. At Cohere, Frosst directs fundamental research initiatives, language model safety, and semantic embedding algorithms, playing a key role in the creation of Cohere Embed and Rerank. He is also a celebrated indie rock musician and an outspoken advocate for grounded, responsible AI safety standards. At Google Brain's Toronto laboratory, Frosst worked as a direct protégé of Geoffrey Hinton, exploring fundamental questions in neural representations, adversarial robustness, and biological plausibility. At Cohere, Frosst directs fundamental capabilities research, semantic embedding algorithms, and AI alignment methodologies. His research was instrumental in the mathematical formulation of Cohere Embed v3 and Rerank 3, establishing them as the global standard for enterprise document retrieval.