Ep 93 - From Reading Papers in the Gym to a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Cohere's Untold Story

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 Follow Sriram: https://www.instagram.com/sriramk/ https://twitter.com/sriramk Follow Aarthi: https://www.instagram.com/aarthir/ https://twitter.com/aarthir Follow the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/aarthiandsriramshow/ https://twitter.com/aarthisrirampod