Cohere Review: The Enterprise AI Company That Wrote the Transformer Paper and Chose Not to Race OpenAI

Aidan Gomez co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' at 20, then built Cohere around a different bet: enterprises need private, sovereign AI deployments, not the most powerful model. Seven years later, Cohere has $240M ARR growing at 287%, a $20B valuation, a pending merger with Germany's Aleph Alpha, and a copyright lawsuit from 14 media companies. Here is the full picture.