Nick Frosst — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder of Cohere, an AI company building large language models and enterprise AI tools, founded in 2019.
Co-founders of Cohere were listed on Maclean's AI Trailblazers Power List and The Logic's Innovation Leaders.
Earned a computer science degree from the University of Toronto.
Lead singer of the indie rock band Good Kid, which has 2.3 million monthly Spotify listeners as of 2024 and was nominated for a Juno Award.

Biography

Nick Frosst is a Canadian AI entrepreneur and researcher, recognized as the co-founder of Cohere, a Toronto-based AI company. Cohere focuses on developing large language models and enterprise AI tools, with a particular emphasis on industries like finance and health that require strong privacy and regulatory considerations.

Before co-founding Cohere in 2019 with Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang, Frosst worked as a machine learning researcher at Google Brain in Toronto from 2016 to 2020.