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Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez's file: the Transformer paper, Cohere, enterprise models, sovereign AI, and the researcher-founder trying to turn a landmark architecture into an independent lab.
Gomez helped author the Transformer paper as a young Google researcher, then turned that architecture into a company: Cohere, a Canadian frontier lab built around enterprise models, sovereign deployments, and an increasingly large pile of capital.
HOW THE HELL DID AIDAN GOMEZ GET HERE?
2017
HE CO-AUTHORS THE TRANSFORMER PAPER
Gomez was one of the eight authors of 'Attention Is All You Need,' the Google research paper that introduced the Transformer architecture.
RECEIPTS: Google Researchfirst-party
2019
HE CO-FOUNDS COHERE
Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang founded Cohere in 2019, building an independent AI company around enterprise-grade language models.
RECEIPTS: Coherefirst-party
Jun 8, 2023
COHERE RAISES $270 MILLION
Cohere announced a $270 million Series C to expand its enterprise generative-AI platform and global footprint.
RECEIPTS: Coherefirst-party
Jul 22, 2024
THE INDEPENDENT LAB RAISES ANOTHER HALF-BILLION
Cohere raised $500 million at a $5.5 billion valuation as Gomez's company tried to keep pace with much larger frontier-model rivals.
RECEIPTS: TechCrunchreported
Sep 16, 2026
COHERE GOES TRANSATLANTIC
Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha signed a definitive business-combination agreement for a planned transatlantic sovereign-AI company that would operate globally as Cohere, subject to final regulatory approvals.
RECEIPTS: Coherefirst-party