Aidan Gomez on The first company or companies to devel…

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer paper

Each country cannot depend on a single other country. They need to spread their bets and make sure that they're resilient in the event that one of those gets switched off.

AI Verified (Jan 20, 2026)

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Aidan Gomez, quoted in Axios, “Axios House: Executives and academics agree there's collective benefit to diversifying AI,” January 20, 2026.

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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity

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AI Verified Verified: Gomez warns countries must not depend on a single other country for AI; this supports concentration risk. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Verified: Gomez’s warning against single-country AI dependency supports the statement; recorded answer for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Verified in Axios, Jan. 20, 2026: Gomez is quoted with the exact wording. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US providers

This sentiment of renting AI from someone rather than owning it is a national security risk [...] You need to fully control it.

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Democracies should share frontier AI models with allies

I think the consensus was we need something. [...] Democracies should focus their efforts on making sure the G7 doesn’t just produce the most capable AI, but also the second most capable AI.

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