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Cohere is doing a lot of enterprise AI business, and a lot of business directly with the federal government. They are also not juiced up in these financial game
by helloooooooo 10mo ago
Cohere is doing a lot of enterprise AI business, and a lot of business directly with the federal government. They are also not juiced up in these financial games that OpenAI or Oracle are playing.
Additionally, Cohere is no less “kids” than Anthropic or OpenAI. Aidan was literally one of the co-authors of “Attention is all you need”.
- ryandv 10mo agoI thought they were still hiring bootcamp graduates.
- htrp 10mo agoaidan was an intern on AIAYN >While an intern at Google Brain, Aidan Gomez co-authored the paper "Attention Is All You Need" with other researchers.
- maximilianburke 10mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need#Authors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need#Auth... >The authors of the paper are: Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. All eight authors were "equal contributors" to the paper; the listed order was randomized. Intern or not, it still sounds like he contributed substantially.
- nmfisher 10mo agoI took "kids" more to mean they're inexperienced at building sovereign data centres.
- neom 10mo agoNo doubt some amazing engineer's work there, but there are little to no adults in the room at that business as far as I can see, and sure they like to tweet about how well they are doing, and I keep hearing this line that they're selling to enterprise, uh, who, Canadian tire? If they actually have more than $150mm in revenue I'd be amazed, and $150mm revenue is still, not at all impressive. https://www. theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenger- cohere-fell-85-short-early-revenue- forecast
- wbl 10mo ago$150 mm with a gross margin of 80% and low capital is great. $150 mm when you spent a few billion not so much.