This is an editorial pick, not a submission — Talmyn’s own research into an early accomplishment with a clear, checkable through-line, published as part of our ongoing Talmyn Rising 100 coverage.
Aidan Gomez is a co-author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 research paper that introduced the transformer architecture — the foundational technical approach behind the current generation of large language models, written while Gomez was still a young researcher. He later co-founded Cohere, an AI company focused on enterprise-oriented language models, which has since raised substantial funding and built a real customer base.
Why he made this list
What makes this a genuinely strong Rising 100 case, rather than just a résumé line, is the directness of the through-line: the specific research contribution is checkable — the paper exists, is one of the most-cited papers in modern computer science, and Gomez’s authorship on it is a matter of public record — and it connects directly to the company he later built, rather than being an unrelated early achievement followed by an unrelated business.
That combination — a real, foundational technical contribution made early, followed by building a company around the same underlying expertise rather than pivoting away from it — is a specific and relatively rare pattern worth naming, distinct from a young founder whose early achievement and later venture aren’t directly connected.
Talmyn’s Rising 100 coverage looks for a specific, checkable accomplishment, not general promise. Co-authoring one of the most consequential papers in recent computer science, at a young age, clears that bar directly.
