🔮 The year of scaling enterprise AI, with Cohere's Aidan Gomez

Aidan Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere, a leading AI company focused on enterprise applications. Not only is he a major figure in the current generative AI landscape, but he was also one of its instigators. At only 20, as an intern at Google, Aidan co-authored the 2017 “Attention is all you need” paper, which introduced transformer technology to the world — yes, the “T” in GPT, the AI architecture taking the world by storm. Some of the questions Aidan and I discuss:* How organisations are taking their large language models from proof of concept to useful application* Why LLMs’ real value lies in their integration into larger systems rather than isolated use* Why Aidan thinks that AI will augment, not displace the workforce* Lessons from the Air Canada chatbot scandal* Aidan’s thinking on the role AI plays in reinforcing existing market dominance — and long-term innovation potential.Want to sponsor an episode of my podcast? Let’s discuss!00:00 Introduction 03:04 The origins of the transformer paper “Attention is all you need” 11:05 Enterprises and large language models (LLMs) 30:22 Reliability and trust in LLMs 39:58 Components and infrastructure of LLM implementations 45:31 Performance improvements from LLMs 48:41 Impact on competitive dynamics 51:30 Augmenting, not displacing, human workers 57:00 Building apps with LLMs 01:00:32 Overcoming fear and nervousness around AI 01:05:55 The future of LLM architectures 01:08:30 Balancing level-headedness and rapid progress in AIWhere to find Aidan:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidangomezX: https://twitter.com/aidangomez “Attention is all you need” paper by Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., ... & Polosukhin, I. (2017)Where to find Azeem:Website: https://www.azeemazhar.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azharYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AzeemExponentiallyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/azeemX: https://twitter.com/azeem This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe