E477 Nils Reimers, Director of Machine Learning at Cohere

Today's guest is Nils Reimers, Director of Machine Learning at Cohere. Founded in 2019, Cohere empowers every developer and enterprise to build amazing products and capture true business value with language AI. The company believes that the union of research and product will realize a world where technology commands language in a way that’s as compelling and coherent as ourselves. They live at the forefront of ML/AI research to bring the latest advancements in language AI to their platform.

Nils is a NLP and Deep Learning researcher with extensive experiences on representing text in dense vector spaces and how to use them for various applications including Neural Information Retrieval. He leads the ML team at Cohere that develops and trains Large Language Models/foundation models for semantic search and few-shot text classification. Their goal is to develop foundation models that can create rich content representations for many use-cases and tasks.

In the episode, Nils will talk about:

The interesting work Cohere are doing in NLP,

His role and day-to-day life of the team,

The impact they bring to customers,

Three key areas they are focusing on for the near future,

Why Cohere is a great place to work