Nvidia-backed AI startup Cohere CEO: Compute supply still severely insufficient, fighting for computing resources every day

Odaily report: Aidan Gomez, CEO of Nvidia-backed Canadian AI startup Cohere, said in an interview in Tokyo that despite market concerns about an oversupply of AI data center construction, the company is still facing a severe compute shortage and needs to secure the computing resources required for training and running AI models every day. Gomez said Cohere does not build its own data centers and mainly relies on cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure and CoreWeave for compute, and still needs more energy, infrastructure, and chip support. He hopes AI infrastructure construction will continue to advance to ease supply pressure.

In addition, Cohere is working with Nvidia to develop custom AI models optimized for its chip platforms. Commenting on the recent disclosure of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair, Gomez described it as a very unfortunate event and said that if Huang were forced to step down as a result, it would deal a major blow to Nvidia. (Bloomberg)