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Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of the Transformer paper, written while at Google Brain

  • Co-founder and CEO, Cohere12

Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere, according to the company's about page. Gomez is a co-author of Attention Is All You Need (2017), which introduced the Transformer; the paper notes that Gomez's work on it was performed while at Google Brain, and its contribution note credits Gomez and Łukasz Kaiser with designing parts of and implementing Tensor2Tensor, which replaced the team's earlier codebase. Gomez is also listed with a Google Brain affiliation on the 2018 Tensor2Tensor paper.134

Work

  • Transformer (Attention Is All You Need) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research

    Co-author of the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture; the contribution note says Gomez and Łukasz Kaiser designed and implemented parts of Tensor2Tensor, which replaced the earlier codebase used for the work.3

  • Tensor2Tensor (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    Co-author of the 2018 Tensor2Tensor paper, which describes the Google Brain library of deep learning models that includes the reference implementation of the Transformer; the repository is published under the Apache 2.0 license.45

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.

  • Work on the Transformer paper performed while at Google Brain, Google Brain34

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

  1. 1.
    About Cohere (founders) (external site: cohere.com)

    Cohere · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  2. 2.
    aidangomez (Aidan Gomez) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  3. 3.
    Attention Is All You Need (arXiv 1706.03762) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Jun 12, 2017 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  4. 4.
    Tensor2Tensor for Neural Machine Translation (arXiv 1803.07416) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Mar 16, 2018 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  5. 5.
    tensorflow/tensor2tensor README (Apache-2.0) (external site: github.com)

    TensorFlow (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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