Co-inventor of Transformer · CEO of CohereCo-inventor of Transformer · CEO of Cohere
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As an undergraduate intern at Google Brain, Gomez became the youngest co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017). The experience of working on the Transformer inspired him to found Cohere in 2019, an enterprise-focused LLM company headquartered in Toronto. Under his leadership as CEO, Cohere has become a major player in enterprise AI, offering multilingual models with a focus on data privacy and on-premises deployment. Cohere was valued at about $7B in 2025 (roughly $1.6B raised) and reached ~$240M ARR by early 2026 (up from ~$100M), hired ex-Uber CFO Francois Chadwick in Aug 2025 and, per Gomez, hopes to go public soon.
As an undergraduate intern at Google Brain, Gomez became the youngest co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017). The experience of working on the Transformer inspired him to found Cohere in 2019, an enterprise-focused LLM company headquartered in Toronto. Under his leadership as CEO, Cohere has become a major player in enterprise AI, offering multilingual models with a focus on data privacy and on-premises deployment. Cohere was valued at about $7B in 2025 (roughly $1.6B raised) and reached ~$240M ARR by early 2026 (up from ~$100M), hired ex-Uber CFO Francois Chadwick in Aug 2025 and, per Gomez, hopes to go public soon.