Canadian AI Start-up Cohere Raises $500m, Hires Former Meta Exec
Joelle Pineau will lead Cohere’s AI strategy and research as it competes with larger firms, aiming to raise $500 million and focus on privacy-sensitive enterprise AI applications.
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After leaving Meta in the spring, computer researcher Joëlle Pineau will continue her career with Cohere as Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI), she announced on Thursday. This hiring is part of the growth objective of the Toronto company, while she receives new funding from the Canadian Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital Technology Funds.


Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams.
Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as Chief AI Officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as Chief AI Officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams — Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models …
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