How Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez Says AI Will Directly Profit Companies

Aidan Gomez is the CEO and co-founder of Cohere and he’s been at the center of generative AI since its early days. He was an intern at Google in 2017 when he helped write the foundational paper that conceptualized the transformer - the tech that makes generative AI possible. Now he’s focused on building generative AI models for companies instead of consumers. CNBC’s Steve Kovach sat down with Gomez to talk about the burgeoning tech and specific ways his models will boost profits for companies.
Produced by - Katie Tarasov
Correspondent - Steve Kovach
Shot by - Beatriz Bajuelos, Tasia Jensen
Edited by - Marc Ganley
Supervising Producer - Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Footage - Cohere, Nvidia
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How Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez Says AI Will Directly Profit Companies

[@MonkeyWrangler]

That haircut was diabolical 💀 took bro a 2 billion dollar company to pay someone to get him right

[@Hydshjvobohgk4259]

What papers does he read?

[@mriz]

his new hair cut make me almost can't recognize him. either way i like his style and works.

[@Kaif08610]

The thumbnail and the interviewee looks like 2 completely different people, Thought John Lennon was the CEO for a second.😅

[@100kSubscribersForComments]

The next few years will be crucial in shaping the future of work and innovation as AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives

[@TaniaLato-ky4wo]

I think investors should always put their cash to work, especially In 2024, we'll start to see more market diversification. I'm hoping to invest about $350k of my savings in stocks against next year. Hope to make millions in 2024.

[@Janise-pg8yr]

Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.

[@Manselus-uy3kz]

Uncertainty... it took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what bout to happen in market based on charts studying, cause you never know. not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go we’re the market is wanting to go and keep it simple with discipline.

[@Manselus-uy3kz]

My CFA ’ANGELA LYNN SCHILLING’ , a renowned figure in her line of work. I recommend researching her credentials further. She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market.

[@wengelder9256]

This is lame and fake .

[@TheJuliaLaRocheShow]

Really enjoyed this episode, Steve and Aidan!

[@ginogarcia8730]

dzammmm Aidan went from 40 year old mathematics tenured professor to 30 year old EDM producer Dzaddy

[@prem9501]

Great interview. Thank you

[@mobiusinversion]

I would say OpenAI gets the credit for the big bet on scale.

[@rolestream]

Nice ot hear someone in the know, talking sense without the hype.

[@DiegoMarquesBrazil]

Great interview, very clarifing about the real possibilities of using AI

[@bigpurplepops]

One person starts doing the work of 2-3 with AI and only gets a 20% raise. It's pretty simple.

[@litojonny]

sounds like Asana but with "we got AI bro"

[@yyanri]

cohere’s products are actually good

[@GrapeJeli]

That hair is a war crime

[@SerpkoBakotiinii]

9/10 guys from East Europe will have the same a week before going to barber. Girls like it.

[@GrapeJeli]

@@SerpkoBakotiinii yeah on themselves and other women

[@fcsolis]

Awesome interview. I hope the business takes off.

[@moonstrobe]

I wish I could have gotten anything substantial from this. Did anyone actually decide to throw money at them, based on this interview?

[@yoursubconscious]

do you have a photo of yourself: no

[@danielan962]

old boomer investors will fall for anything

[@MrHav1k]

In other words water is wet.

[@ivand0007]

Lord farquad

[@reginaldbellamy4566]

This is great knowledge for future finance professionals!!

[@Waltaere]

Cnbc on a Sunday 😃

[@emiliog.4432]

What can go wrong?

[@gifford1984]

I know Skynet will be created and we will see doomdays happening lol

[@XOPOIIIO]

Nothing to laugh about, it's a serious problem.

[@user-ph2mt2tx8c]

very smart guy and this reminds me of the Palantir CEO somehow

[@chriskim7123]

Aidans is cuteeeeeee

[@MrSamAdah]

I first heard about Cohere on Gary Tan's page when they launched.

[@amatuer2]

Hopefully this Canadian company will IPO on the TSX

[@XOPOIIIO]

AGI risks are extensively covered philosophical topic. The disaster it could bring is logically follows from a number of thought experiments. Calling it sci fi and mentioning terminators is as irresponsible as talking that nuclear war risks are just sci fi fantasy from fallout. Just learn the argumentation behind those risks, Nick Bostrom covered them very well. People who put all their focus on the engineering and coding often forget how life-changing their work could be, read more, learn outside of your sphere, don't delude yourself and others.

[@GrumpDog]

Sure, the potential for risks exists.. But also, and more likely, it will bring a TON of immense benefits!

[@XOPOIIIO]

@@GrumpDog We don't need those benefits. We already live in post-scarcity society for the last 70 years.

[@GrumpDog]

@@XOPOIIIO That is NOT true. There are tons of people who will benefit from the advances AI will bring, and who CERTAINLY aren't "living in post scarcity" right now.. Frankly, we aren't in "post scarcity", until "jobs" are no longer required for a comfortable survival. Also, kinda silly to say we don't need the immense benefits I'm referring too, when you don't seem to realize how life changing they will be. You won't say no, no one in their right might will.

[@XOPOIIIO]

​@@GrumpDog Civilization brought tons of benefits to people, but didn't make them happier. People are addicted to comfortable life but the more comfortable they become the more miserable the become. You know why video games are so addictive? Because people are deprived of challenge and pain.

[@GrumpDog]

@@XOPOIIIO I'd argue civilization HAS made people happier. It's significantly reduced the survival stresses we'd otherwise all have to face on a daily basis. And people wouldn't be so miserable, if we still had the economy that our parents experienced over 3 decades ago. It's not society, it's our broken economic standards and corruption, which has made things so miserable. If we were living in true "post scarcity", people wouldn't be so miserable as you claim. lol And AI breaks those standards pretty much entirely, once it improves a little more. It will force us to alter our economic standards yet again. There's no other way.

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Whoah haircut!!!

[@kurorintala]

You have to disclose it if your video is an add. You're violating several laws here.

[@GrumpDog]

No. They're not "violating" any laws.

[@CiaaGaming]

This guy’s face screams fraudster 😭💀 this is the next SBF or Elizabeth Holmes 💀😭

[@maestoso47]

He’s not a hustler. What a joke.

[@aronax4492]

ukarain ukarin you turuld maney tarder you mynozelaski you dwon

[@user-tx9zg5mz5p]

Humans need to unionize against ai and robots...

[@pjb111]

Bs

[@SIMPLYJFF]

I can only think of a universel basic income when i hear ai. Ai is going to put a lot of people out of jobs and everything is expensive WE NEED A universel BASIC INCOME

[@SigFigNewton]

Probably won’t happen until large corporations are pushing hard for it due to consumers needing money to buy their products

[@SigFigNewton]

In the US, I mean. Probably some countries haven’t been completely captured by corporations

[@erusev]

Eloquent

[@paillette2010]

Deep thoughts from Mr Obvious. What start up heap did you rustle up this “genius” Crikey. 🙄

[@mxschumacher]

Google has a large enterprise offering, both in cloud and ads. What a weird argument.

[@mikehollowayuk]

Screw Google. ZERO brand loyalty. 🗳

[@khunopie9159]

He looks like he REAALLLLY doesn't like Trump

[@themanape]

So he's evil?

[@Engineering2AI]

LOL no, he just talk about his company, he's not taken your data but rather using companies data with their permission to build a model. These models output specifically good for that one company, your personal data not useful to him as you are a consumer while he target better use cases for company

[@SigFigNewton]

lol?

[@rightright6582]

Is this an add