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20VC: Cohere Founder on How Cohere Compete with OpenAI and Anthropic $BNs | Why Counties Should Fund Their Own Models & the Need for Model Sovereignty | How Sam Altman Has Done a Disservice to AI with Nick Frosst
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Nick Frosst is a Canadian AI researcher and entrepreneur, best known as co-founder of Cohere, the enterprise-focused LLM. Cohere has raised over $900 million, most recently a $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. Under his leadership, Cohere hit $100M in ARR. Prior to founding Cohere, Nick was a researcher at Google Brain and a protégé of Geoffrey Hinton.
AGENDA:
– Biggest lessons from Geoff Hinton at Google Brain?
– Did Google completely sleep at the wheel and miss ChatGPT?
– Is data or compute the real bottleneck in AI's future?
– Does GPT5 Prove That Scaling Laws are BS?
– Are AI benchmarks just total BS?
– Would Cohere spend $5M on a single AI researcher?
– What is nonsense in AI that everyone is talking about?
– What is no one talking about in AI that everyone should be talking about?
– How do Cohere compete with OpenAI and Anthropic's billions?
– Why does being American actually hurt tech companies today?
– Should countries fund their own models? Is model sovereignty the future?
– Why has Sam Altman actually done a disservice to AI?
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