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Aidan Gomez is a British-Canadian computer scientist who, as a 20-year-old Google Brain intern, co-wrote “Attention Is All You Need”, the paper that introduced the transformer. In 2019 he co-founded Cohere, a Toronto-based company building AI models for businesses, and is its CEO.
Biography
Background
Gomez grew up in rural Ontario. He studied computer science at the University of Toronto and began a PhD at Oxford.
Transformer
As an intern at Google Brain in 2017 he worked with Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer and others on the transformer paper, helping build its code library.
Cohere
In 2019 he co-founded Cohere with Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang, focusing on secure language models for enterprises rather than consumers.
Growth
Cohere grew into one of Canada’s most valuable AI companies, with partnerships with Oracle and others.
Timeline
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2017
Transformer paper as an intern
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2019
Co-founds Cohere
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2022
Cohere launches its platform
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2023
Named to Time 100 AI
Notable works
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2017
Attention Is All You Need Paper
Co-author.
Did you know?
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He was the youngest author of the transformer paper.
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He grew up on a maple-syrup farm in Ontario.
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Cohere is headquartered in Toronto.
Connections
Frequently asked
Who is Aidan Gomez?
Aidan Gomez is a British-Canadian computer scientist who, as a 20-year-old Google Brain intern, co-wrote “Attention Is All You Need”, the paper that introduced the transformer. In 2019 he co-founded Cohere, a Toronto-based company building AI models for businesses, and is its CEO.
Where is Aidan Gomez from?
Aidan Gomez was born in England.
What is Aidan Gomez known for?
Aidan Gomez is best known for Co-authoring “Attention Is All You Need” as an intern (2017); co-founding Cohere (2019).
References
- Aidan Gomez — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Official website. aidangomez.ca. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Aidan Gomez (Q110864219) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
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- First published 4 November 2026
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