Toronto-based Cohere, founded by two ex-Google Brain team members to commercialize natural language AI models, raises $40M Series A led by Index Ventures
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Tweets: @blancheminerva , @jordanjacobs10 , @jordanjacobs10 , @nathanbenaich , and @nickfrosst . Thanks: @jenholmes Tweets: Stella Rose Biderman / @blancheminerva : The people at @CohereAI are cool, but anyone who thinks that the way you “democratize” something is to start a start-up to sell it needs a new dictionary. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Jordan Jacobs / @jordanjacobs10 : This week @CohereAI announced their series A - backed by world leading AI luminaries including @geoffreyhinton, @drfeifei, @pabbeel, @RaquelUrtasun, @goodfellow_ian, and @FidlerSanja. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Sharing the story of @radicalfundvc's investment 🧵👇 1/10 Jordan Jacobs / @jordanjacobs10 : Congrats @CohereAI & founders @AidanNGomez, @nickfrosst, @1vnzh! A fantastic experience to be on this rocket ship with you since day 1. Very excited for what's to come! Welcome @mavolpi @IndexVentures & @harrisona007 & @section32vc. https://twitter.com/... Nathan Benaich / @nathanbenaich : 🔥 Big year in NLP research that translated into a big year for NLP startups, real fast...AI ain't niche, innit. - $100m for @primer_ai - $40m for @huggingface - $27m for @Aleph__Alpha - $6-20m for @explosion_ai - now $40m for @CohereAI Who did I miss 🤔 https://twitter.com/... Nick Frosst / @nickfrosst : Feeling real good about the team here at @CohereAI today :) This is the result of a lot of work of a lot of people. Im happy to be among them This allows us to keep working on making language models useful, safe and accessible :) @IndexVentures @section32vc @radicalvcfund https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @jenholmes