Cohere CEO Says Daily Compute Shortages Persist Amid Data Center Glut Concerns

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said the Canadian AI startup faces a severe computing shortage and must secure capacity daily to train and operate its models amid concerns about excess data center construction.

In a Tokyo interview, Gomez said Cohere has not built its own data centers and gets most of its computing resources from Microsoft Azure and CoreWeave. The company needs more energy, infrastructure and chips, he said.

Cohere is also working with Nvidia to develop custom AI models optimized for Nvidia chips, Gomez said.