Aidan Gómez, co -founder and CEO of generative ai startup cohere According to a regulatory presentation. The appointment is the last sign that Rivian sees promises to apply AI to his own company while positioning himself as a software leader, and even supplier, within the automotive industry.
Rivian increased the size of the board and chose Gómez, whose term will expire in 2026, according to the presentation.
Gomez has had a long career as a data scientist and AI expert. He launched in 2019 with co -founders Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang with an approach to training AI Foundation models for companies. The generative startup of AI sells its services to companies such as Oracle and notion.
Before starting the coherent, Gomez was a researcher in Google Brain, the deep learning division on Google led by the winner of the Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton. Gomez is also known for “attention is all you need”, a 2017 technical article that was co -author who laid the foundations for many of the most capable generative models today.
Gomez’s skill set could be particularly useful for Rivian, since the EV manufacturer navigates a new joint business of $ 5.8 billion with Volkswagen Group to develop software. According to the joint company, Rivian will share his experience in electrical architecture with Volkswagen Group, including his many brands, and is expected to graduate the existing intellectual property rights to the joint company.
It is possible that the joint company sells its technology to other companies in the future.
Rivian has also been working on an IA assistant for his EV since 2023, said Rivian software director Wasym Bensaid, TechCrunch during an interview in March. The work of AI, which is specifically in the orchestration layer or framework for an AI assistant, is outside the joint company with VW, Bensaid mentioned at that time.
Gomez’s experience in AI and, as a data scientist, is clearly attractive to the founder and CEO of Rivian, RJ Scaringe, who
He observed in a statement that his “thought and experience will support Rivian as we integrate new avant -garde technologies in our products, services and manufacturing.”
