Aidan Gomez, the CEO and co-founder of Cohere, poses for a portrait at the Collision 2024 tech conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 18, 2024. For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind the company's staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza. "Enterprises are skeptical of technology, and they're risk averse, and so we need to win their trust and to prove to them that there's a way to adopt this technology that's reliable, trustworthy and secure," Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told AFP. When he was just 20 years old, Gomez co-authored the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer, the architecture behind popular large language models like OpenAI's GPT-4. (Photo by Cole BURSTON / AFP) (Photo by COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)