Aidan Gomez
AI Founder
Sources checkedCo-founder and CEO of Cohere, enterprise AI platform for generative LLMs, fine-tuning, and semantic retrieval. Co-authored the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper in 2017 while at Google Brain, which introduced the Transformer architecture that underpins all modern generative AI models. Completed Ph.D. at University of Oxford.
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Attention Is All You Need: The Seminal Transformer Architecture Paper
Co-authored the groundbreaking NeurIPS 2017 research paper introducing the Transformer, an architecture dispensing entirely with recurrence and convolutions in favor of multi-head self-attention mechanisms, founding modern LLM technology.
Original architecture scaled quadratically O(N^2) with sequence length, prompting subsequent research into grouped-query attention, sparse attention, and linear recurrence hybrids.
Context: 8-head multi-head self-attention, sinusoidal positional encodings, trained on 8 NVIDIA P100 GPUs.
View missionCohere Command R+ Enterprise Agentic Retrieval & Tool Calling Engine
Directed the development of Command R+, an open-weights 104B parameter model optimized specifically for multi-step agentic workflows, multi-lingual enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and cited tool calling across complex relational schemas.
Heavy memory footprint requiring 4x NVIDIA A100 (80GB) or quantized 8-bit / 4-bit deployments in production environments.
Context: 104B parameters, 128k context window, native citation grounding, multi-turn tool use API schema.
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