Co-Founder at First Day Entertainment
Stephen Gou
Stephen is an expert in LLM and game development. Previously the founding engineer at Cohere, a multi-billion dollar foundation model startup where he researched and developed LLMs and applied models at scale. Stephen also had years of experience in game development with Triple-A game studios.
Questions & Answers
What problem or opportunity inspired you to start your company, and how has your vision evolved since then?
Comparing to other verticals where AI's applications are mainly augmenting user's abilities or improve product efficiencies, how to create new generations of games that's only possible with AI is far less obvious and requires insights in both AI and gaming and tons of experiments. We created First Day to be at the frontier of creating new types of games and to bring those games to the main stream audience.
Can you share a distinctive achievement or highlight from your career?
I was the founding Engineer of Cohere, a multi-billion dollar Foundation Model startup where I started training LLMs as early as 2020 where only a few companies in the world were able to do.
