Intelligence Briefing
Co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. Co-founded Cohere in 2019, now valued at $7B with $240M+ ARR, preparing for a potential 2026 IPO. Also serves on Rivian's board of directors since July 2025.
BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics — University of Toronto
PhD, Computer Science — University of Oxford
Operational History
Preparing for IPO
Cohere is preparing for a potential IPO, with a valuation of $7B.
careerBoard Director at Rivian
Appointed to the board of directors at Rivian.
careerCohere Founded
Co-founded Cohere, focusing on natural language processing solutions.
foundingCo-author of Transformer Paper
Published 'Attention Is All You Need', introducing the Transformer architecture.
researchAGI Position Assessment
Unknown
Focuses on near-term practical risks over hypothetical existential threats. Critical of effective altruism's influence on AI safety discourse. Prioritizes enterprise security and data privacy as the real safety frontier.
Focuses on near-term practical risks over hypothetical existential threats. Critical of effective altruism's influence on AI safety discourse. Prioritizes enterprise security and data privacy as the real safety frontier.
Intercepted Communications
“AI safety should prioritize practical risks over hypothetical existential threats.”
“The Transformer architecture has revolutionized natural language processing.”
“Cohere's mission is to make AI accessible to businesses of all sizes.”
“Data privacy is the real frontier of AI safety.”
“Effective altruism's influence on AI safety discourse is concerning.”
Research Output
Command A: Enhancing AI Interactivity
2023Cohere Research
Focused on improving AI interactivity.
Cohere Rerank: Improving Search Results
2023Cohere Research
Developed methods to enhance search result relevance.
Command R: A New Paradigm for Language Models
2022Cohere Research
Proposed a new approach to language models.
Cohere Embed: A New Approach to Text Representation
2021Cohere Research
Introduced new methods for text representation.
Attention Is All You Need
2017arXiv
Introduced the Transformer architecture.
Known Associates
Ashish Vaswani
collaboratorCo-authored the Transformer paper.
View Dossier →Noam Shazeer
collaboratorCo-authored the Transformer paper.
View Dossier →Katherine Gorman
collaboratorCo-authored the Transformer paper.
View Dossier →Jakob Uszkoreit
collaboratorCo-authored the Transformer paper.
View Dossier →Organizational Affiliations
Current
Cohere
CEO
2019 - Present
Former
Google Brain
Intern
2016
FOR.ai
Researcher
2017 - 2018
Source Material
Dossier last updated: 2026-03-04