Nick Frosst | |
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| Education | University of Toronto |
| Occupations |
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| Title | Co-founder of Cohere |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | indie rock |
| Instrument | vocals |
| Years active | 2015—present |
| Member of | Good Kid |
| Website | nickfrosst |
Nick Frosst is a Canadian AI entrepreneur and researcher. He co-founded Cohere, a Toronto-based AI company. He is also the lead singer in the indie rock band Good Kid. [1] [2]
Frosst earned a computer science degree from the University of Toronto. He was a student of Geoffrey Hinton, who also hired Frosst at Google Brain. [3] [4] [5]
Frosst was among Geoffrey Hinton’s earliest hires at Google Brain in Toronto, working as a machine learning researcher on deep learning and neural network architectures. He worked there from 2016 to 2020. [4]
Frosst co-founded Cohere with Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang in 2019. [6] The company builds large language models and enterprise AI tools.
Frosst has publicly explained Cohere’s focus on industries like finance and health, where there are privacy and other regulatory considerations. [7] Frosst has also spoken openly about his belief that artificial intelligence will not replace humans, but rather streamline and automate mundane tasks, and his belief that AGI is less "imminent" than many in the field claim. [8] [9]
Frosst and the other Cohere co-founders were listed first on Maclean's AI Trailblazers Power List [10] and The Logic’s Innovation Leaders. [11]
Good Kid was formed in 2015 by Frosst and his fellow computer science students. [1]
As of 2024, the band, which has performed at Lollapalooza, has 2.3 million monthly Spotify listeners. [1]
In 2024, the band was nominated for the Juno Awards Breakthrough Group of the Year. [12]