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Did Aidan Gomez co-found Cohere?
Yes. Cohere's own About page, checked 2026-10-16, lists him as "Co-founder and CEO", and Cohere's 2026-09-16 release on the Aleph Alpha agreement attributes its quote to "Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO, Cohere." CNBC (2024-07-06) captions a photo "Cohere Co-Founders Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst." Cohere's About page dates the founding to 2019.
What did Aidan Gomez do before Cohere?
CNBC (2024-07-06) says he was a University of Toronto computer science student when he interned at Google Brain in 2017 and co-authored "Attention Is All You Need", the paper that conceptualized the transformer. Oxford's CSML group page, checked 2026-10-16, lists him as a student of Yee Whye Teh and Yarin Gal, previously at the University of Toronto with Roger Grosse, and says he spent much of his time at Google Brain mentored by Geoffrey Hinton and Lukasz Kaiser.
Has Aidan Gomez spoken at TechTO?
No. From Cohere, co-founder Ivan Zhang spoke at TechTO on 2021-10-29, in a talk about the importance of a founding team; Cohere had just announced its US$40M Series A.
Where is Aidan Gomez based, and what does he do now?
He is Cohere's CEO as of this review: Cohere's About page, checked 2026-10-16, lists him as Co-founder and CEO. BetaKit (2025-10-21) describes him as a Canadian-born entrepreneur who lives in the UK, where his mother is from, but no fetched page names a city, so none is listed here.