Ep 93 - From Reading Papers in the Gym to a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Cohere's Untold Story
Description
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere
2:12 Childhood and growing up in Canada
5:50 Getting into computers and internet
10:30 Sending cold emails
14:20 How to work with Aidan
16:40 The AI paper - "Attention is all you need"
18:45 Starting Cohere
21:10 Why choose enterprise (vs consumer) as a market
24:45 AI strategy
28:20 Hallucinations in LLM models
30:10 Enterprise software and security implications
32:05 Deloitte, Accenture and the impact of generative AI
36:40 Will LLM scaling laws hit a plateau?
38:50 AGI, reasoning and inference for LLM models
41:30 Synthetic data - what is it? Why is it interesting?
43:25 Looking ahead - what is the Cohere's strategy?
46:00 Cohere's capital structure
49:15 Enterprise Use Cases
52:10 Advice for founders - adaptability
54:15 Thank you
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