Cohere Cofounder and CEO Aidan Gomez emphasized how a combination of smart regulation and the company’s own development work can spur wider adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for enterprises during a featured discussion at BSA | The Software Alliance’s TRANSFORM Dialogue in Washington, DC.
During a fireside chat with BSA CEO Victoria Espinel, Gomez spoke to how thoughtful regulation can build clarity and make it easier for companies of all sizes to make use of the transformative benefits of AI.
“I think regulation is helpful in driving clarity,” said Gomez during TRANSFORM’s opening segment, adding that businesses considering whether to adopt AI tools are “very worried about the lack of clarity around how they can operate and what the guardrails should be. And so, for them, they need regulation to come in and basically clarify how to adopt [AI].”
Gomez spoke to the importance of multilingual models and helping Cohere customers address issues throughout different parts of the AI life cycle.
“What we can do is provide guidance on building systems,” Gomez said. “That’s what we do; it’s education and using post-deployment monitoring. The first thing that we recommend to the companies is just setting up the ability to evaluate.”
Gomez emphasized how Cohere seeks to partner with enterprise companies to help them build the systems that make the most sense for their infrastructure.
One of the best ways to do that? “Controllability,” he said. “Giving our customers the ability to choose which version of the model that they want.”