Artificial intelligence workers are quitting top jobs at companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI and DeepMind and joining a new breed of start-ups.
"When you started scaling up these models, the capabilities just grew in a way that I think no one predicted," Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told CNBC."It was like a total shock."
It is led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who recently left his VP of AI product management and AI policy role at Google. LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and former DeepMind researcher Karen Simonyan are the other co-founders.Former DeepMinder Heinrich Kuttler left his research engineering manager role at Meta AI in London in March to become a member of the founding team at Inflection, working on the technical side of the business, according to his LinkedIn page.
He added:"Even when we write a search query, we're simplifying, we're reducing or we're writing in shorthand so that the search engine can understand what we want." Cohere, which has raised around $170 million from the likes of Index Ventures and Tiger Global, wants to create an interface that allows software developers to use complicated AI technology on their apps.
Anthropic describes itself as an AI safety and research company. It says that it wants to build"reliable interpretable, and steerable AI systems."