Aidan Gomez / Cohere — AI Researcher

**Aidan Gomez** is the co-founder and CEO of **Cohere**, a Last reported valuation was $5.5B in Series D (June 2024). At just **20 years old**, while an intern at **Google Brain**, he co-authored **"Attention Is All You Need"** — the 2017 paper that introduced the **transformer architecture**, the foundation of every modern large language model. The paper has accumulated over **120,000 citations** and is one of the most influential computer science papers ever written. Gomez is the youngest co-author on the paper that changed AI forever.