Event/Award Placements

CNBC • 28th February 2024

CNBC Changemakers: Raquel Urtasun

Company: Waabi
Title: Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Industry: Technology
Hometown: Pamplona, Spain
Notable in 2023: Accelerated the deployment of AI-driven autonomous trucks.
Rachel Urtasun has a vision to help solve supply chain delivery woes. Her company Waabi focuses on developing self-driving trucks, but it's relying on artificial intelligence first and foremost to advance its technology quicker than competitors.
It's paying off. In September 2023, Waabi's AI-powered software and s

Elevate • 16th February 2024

Aidan Gomez

“Aidan Gomez is Cofounder and CEO at Cohere, a company kickstarting a new chapter in machine learning by giving developers and businesses access to NLP that generates, categorizes, and organizes text at a scale that was previously unimaginable. Prior to Cohere, Aidan co-authored the paper “Attention is All You Need,” which introduced the groundbreaking Transformer architecture. He also collaborated with a number of AI luminaries, including Geoff Hinton and Jeff Dean, during his time at Google Br

Fast Company • 16th February 2024

Next Big Things in Tech 2022

It would be nearly impossible these days to find a sector in the economy that isn’t reinventing itself. As technology evolves at an ever-accelerating clip, companies big and small are turning to pioneering approaches in areas such as generative AI, Web3, and automation to create smarter, better, and (increasingly) more sustainable products and services. Yet, even in the crowded world of innovation, a number of brands stand out.

A panel of 22 Fast Company editors and writers selected this year’s

Time • 1st December 2023

AI Should Complement Humans at Work, Not Replace Them, TIME Panelists Say

Artificial intelligence is widely expected to transform our lives. Leaders from across the sector gathered for a TIME dinner conversation on Nov. 30, where they emphasized the need to center humans in decisions around incorporating the technology into workflows and advocated for governments and industry leaders to take a responsible approach to managing the risks the technology poses.

As part of the TIME100 Talks series in San Francisco, senior correspondent Alice Park spoke with panelists Cynt

Insider • 10th October 2023

The AI 100 2023: The top people in artificial intelligence

It may seem like AI emerged in the mainstream consciousness from nowhere. But not everyone is surprised.

For prescient researchers, founders, and others who make up Insider's AI 100, this moment was inevitable.

Even among those who predicted this moment, the speed with which AI has arrived on the world stage has been startling. And it's led to mixed reactions; first, a wave of wonder, followed by a period of deep skepticism.

AI has become a Rorschach test: Ask someone about it, and they'll re

Time • 7th September 2023

TIME100 AI 2023: Aidan Gomez

idan Gomez was just 20 years old when he co-authored a research paper that would change the entire AI industry. It was 2017 and Gomez, then a Google intern, joined a team of researchers writing “Attention Is All You Need”; it proposed a novel neural network technique called the transformer that would learn relationships between long strings of data. Gomez and his seven colleagues raced to finish the paper for inclusion at a major AI conference, even sleeping in the office to make the deadline.

Time • 7th September 2023

TIME100 AI 2023: Raquel Urtasun

hen it comes to technology trends, there are some counterintuitive upsides to getting in late, says Raquel Urtasun. “There is a huge advantage to be a second mover,” she says. The former chief scientist at Uber’s self-driving unit founded autonomous-trucking startup Waabi in 2021, half a decade after the sector’s hype surge of the mid-2010s. Many of the companies founded during that period failed to deliver on their lofty ambitions, and Urtasun, who is also a professor of computer science at the

Cohere • 28th July 2023

The steam engine of today: How AI is revolutionizing the working world @ Collision 2023

Natural language sits at the heart of human intelligence. It is the unique skill that unambiguously separates us from other species and provides a window into how our minds process the world. As we continue to equip machines with the ability to understand and respond to language, people are beginning to realize the full potential of this technology. In this session, Cohere founder and CEO Aidan Gomez joins author and political commentator Stephen Marche to discuss the importance of the next 18 months for AI, and to explore how the technology will propel an intellectual workforce revolution – similar to how the steam engine propelled an industrial revolution more than 100 years ago.

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CNBC • 9th May 2023

44. Cohere

Generative AI is all over the news these days, but Cohere is taking a slightly different tack.

Rather than offering the service to the public a la ChatGPT from this year's top disruptor OpenAI, the startup focuses on enterprise customers. The company's platform lets developers and businesses of all sizes — even those without expertise in machine learning — integrate AI features like copywriting, search, conversational AI, summarization or content moderation in their company's mobile app or serv

Forbes • 13th April 2023

Forbes AI 50 2023

Meanwhile, a flock of fledgling startups have taken advantage of the investor frenzy to assemble sizable businesses. While the rest of venture capital suffers from the market pullback, the AI sector has boomed. Adept, Anthropic and Cohere are among companies founded in the last two years to have secured hundreds of millions in investment. Midjourney and Surge AI, on the other hand, have rapidly amassed impressive customer bases without raising a cent.

Forbes • 9th May 2022

AI 50 2022: North America’s Top AI Companies Shaping The Future

This year’s inductees reflect the booming VC interest as well as the growing variability in AI-focused startups making unique uses of existing technologies, others developing their own and many simply enabling other companies to add AI to their business model.

he mad scramble to adopt Artificial Intelligence amid the Covid-19 crisis is officially old news. We interact with AI as seamlessly as we do our smartphones, through voice assistants, customer service, automated tasks, self-checkout, frau