Ed Elson

We're back with First Time Founders.

I'm gonna ask you the question that you said everyone asks about Cohere, which is what is the difference between Cohere versus the other foundation model companies?

What is the difference between Cohere and OpenAI, between Cohere and Anthropic?

Those are the two big ones in my head.

What is the difference?

Just so we can picture what kinds of work is being done, what is an example of a use case that an enterprise is adopting because of using Cohere as a foundation model?

Just looking at where you are in the AI world, you are automating tasks that are done at businesses and enterprises that, as we are all talking about, would otherwise be done by humans, which introduces the question of, is AI going to replace people?

And this has been a large debate.

We're obviously seeing a lot of layoffs in tech right now.

A very charged debate.

How do you think about all of this?

How do I think about it?

Frequently.

Do you have concerns about...

what this will do in terms of inequality.

I mean, I think about the downsides.

I think long-term, it's, you know, value accretive, which means that's a good thing for society in the same way that the steam engine was, the internet was.

But I think the big concern that seems super likely to me is...

the value is accrued to the people who own the AI and that, yes, maybe some of us might be getting some value out of using AI, but we won't be the ones who own it.

And it will only make wealth inequality even worse, which could have all of its own impacts.