Pierre Richemond is the Head of Multimodal AI at Cohere, where he leads the development of next-generation multimodal and speech AI systems, including Cohere Transcribe, a state-of-the-art open-source automatic speech recognition model. Prior to Cohere, he spent over three years as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind , focusing on reinforcement learning, representation learning, and self-supervised AI research. Pierre holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College London, with research centered on improving the efficiency of deep reinforcement learning systems.