Nick Frosst, the co-founder of Cohere, on the future of LLMs, and AGI. Learn how Cohere is solving real problems for business with their new AI models.

Nick talks about his journey at Google Brain, working with AI legends like Geoff Hinton, and the amazing things his company, Cohere, is doing. From creating the must useful language models for businesses to making tools for developers, Nick shares a lot of interesting insights. He even talks about his band, Good Kid! Nick said that RAG is one of the best features of Cohere's new Command R* models. We are about to release a deep-dive on RAG with Patrick Lewis from Cohere, keep an eye out for that - he explains why their models are specifically optimised for RAG use cases.

Learn more about Cohere Command R models here:
https://cohere.com/command
https://github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-toolkit

Nick's band Good Kid:
https://goodkidofficial.com/

Nick on Twitter:
https://x.com/nickfrosst

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:55 Backstory of Cohere
00:02:31 Hinton
00:02:54 Nick's band
00:03:11 How is Cohere differentiated?
00:03:44 Not an AGI company
00:06:00 Command+R
00:06:41 Standout feature: RAG
00:09:07 How is RAG changing the way we build apps?
00:09:44 Build day
00:10:25 Building robust applications
00:11:59 RAG evolution
00:14:45 Unsupervised RAG
00:16:30 Agents and divergence
00:18:27 Agency
00:22:19 Are LLMs general?
00:24:48 Benchmarks
00:27:07 Would Cohere verticalize?
00:27:43 RAG vs long context
00:29:20 Tech hasn't landed yet?
00:31:36 Are LLMs saturating?
00:35:50 Cohere's data acquisition pipeline
00:36:34 SOTA chasing vs fairness
00:37:21 Fall of the data scientist
00:40:37 Final callouts

Disclaimer: This is the first video from our Cohere partnership. We were not told what to say in the interview, and didn't edit anything out from the interview.