Nick Frosst is a Canadian AI researcher and entrepreneur, best known as co-founder of Cohere, the enterprise-focused LLM. Cohere has raised over $900 million, most recently a $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. Under his leadership, Cohere hit $100M in ARR. Prior to founding Cohere, Nick was a researcher at Google Brain and a protégé of Geoffrey Hinton. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Biggest lessons from Geoff Hinton at Google Brain? 02:14 Did Google completely sleep at the wheel and miss ChatGPT? 05:41 Is data or compute the real bottleneck in AI’s future? 07:16 Does GPT5 Prove That Scaling Laws are BS? 15:47 Are AI benchmarks just total BS? 22:01 Would Cohere spend $5M on a single AI researcher? 32:59 Open vs Closed AI Models 36:01 Future of Prompting 38:43 Lessons from a $600M Fundraise 42:11 How do Cohere compete with OpenAI and Anthropic’s billions? 46:17 Do Enterprise Companies Trade at Low...