Nick Frosst was born on January 5, 1993, and is 33. He studied computer science and cognitive science at the University of Toronto and graduated in 2015. His teacher there was Geoffrey Hinton.
From 2016 to 2020 he worked as a machine learning researcher at Google Brain in Toronto. In 2019 he co-founded Cohere with Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang, all from the University of Toronto circle.
Cohere sells large language models to businesses and governments, including options to run them privately. The company is based in Toronto.
Frosst is also the lead vocalist of Good Kid, an indie rock band he formed in 2015 with university classmates. Good Kid was nominated for a 2024 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year.