Cohere


Cohere is a Canadian startup that provides natural language processing models that help companies improve human-machine interactions. Cohere was founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst.[1]

Cohere
TypePrivate
Industry
Founded2019
FoundersAidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
,
Canada
Number of employees
50
Websitecohere.com

History

In 2017, a team of researchers at Google Brain, which included Aidan Gomez, published a paper called "Attention is All You Need," which introduced the transformer machine learning architecture, setting state-of-the-art performance on a variety of natural language processing tasks.[2][3] Gomez and Nick Frosst, another researcher at Google Brain, founded Cohere along with Ivan Zhang, with whom Gomez had done research at FOR.ai.[4] All of the co-founders also attended University of Toronto.[5] On May 4, 2021, Cohere officially launched.[6] They also announced that they had been working with a small number of test customers, including Ada Support, a chatbot support service-provider.[6][1] In November 2021, Google Cloud announced that they would be partnering with Cohere. Google Cloud would help power Cohere's platform using their robust infrastructure, and Cloud's TPUs would be used by Cohere for the development and deployment of their products.[7] Cohere Raises $40 Million in Series A Financing to Make Natural Language Processing Safe and Accessible to Any Business.[8]

Funding

On September 7th, 2021, Cohere announced that they had raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures; Index Ventures partner Mike Volpi also joined Cohere's board.[9][10] The round also included Radical Ventures, Section 32, and AI-experts Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and Raquel Urtasun.[11]

See also

References
  1. Silcoff, Sean (2021-09-07). "Toronto AI startup Cohere raises US$40-million as it looks to bring Google-quality predictive language to masses". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  2. "Cohere raises $40 million USD to make natural language processing more accessible | BetaKit". 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  3. Sullivan, Mark (2021-09-07). "Ex-Googlers raise $40 million to democratize natural-language AI". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  4. "Cracking the code: This group of U of T computer science researchers are decoding ciphers with AI". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  5. "AI startup Cohere raises US$40-million for natural language software: Globe and Mail". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  6. Silcoff, Sean (2021-05-04). "Toronto startup backed by AI experts aims to bring Google-quality predictive language to the masses". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  7. "Google Cloud teams up with NLP startup Cohere on multiyear partnership around TPUs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  8. Cohere (2021-09-07). "Cohere Raises $40 Million in Series A Financing to Make Natural Language Processing Safe and Accessible to Any Business". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  9. "Google Cloud teams up with NLP startup Cohere on multiyear partnership around TPUs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  10. Cohere (2021-09-07). "Cohere Raises $40 Million in Series A Financing to Make Natural Language Processing Safe and Accessible to Any Business". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  11. Silcoff, Sean (2021-09-07). "Toronto AI startup Cohere raises US$40-million as it looks to bring Google-quality predictive language to masses". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
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