Aidan Gomez Joins Rivian’s Board of Directors, Bringing AI Expertise

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Aidan Gomez Joins Rivian’s Board of Directors

April 21, 2025

Rivian Automotive, Inc. today announced that Aidan Gomez has been named to its board of directors. Gomez is an experienced data scientist and Artificial Intelligence expert and serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Enterprise AI startup Cohere.

“We are thrilled to welcome Aidan to the Rivian board,” said RJ Scaringe, Founder and CEO of Rivian. “Aidan has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the rapidly evolving AI industry, and his thinking and expertise will support Rivian as we integrate new, cutting-edge technologies into our products, services and manufacturing.”

“I am excited to be joining the Rivian board to support its ambitious goals and technology strategy,” said Gomez. “In this pivotal moment, Rivian is the best positioned to become the global leader in automotive and manufacturing AI, and I am eager to support the company in realizing that.”

Prior to founding Cohere, Gomez was a Researcher at Google, working under Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton in its deep learning division, Google Brain.

Gomez received his BS from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford.


Here's Aidan Gomez's tweet about joining Rivian board:

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[Polar]

Oh great AI, wonderful, awesome.

 

[DayTripping]

Wow, I can hardly wait. /s
Don't get me another freaking chatbot. Do something actually useful with it for once. Tell me something I don't know about my vehicle such as predictive repair, optimizing efficiency or acceleration times at a level I can't easily do on my own. Or useful voice commands that do multiple things at once and are context sensitive.

 

[Glembi2]

Wow, I can hardly wait. /s
Don't get me another freaking chatbot. Do something actually useful with it for once. Tell me something I don't know about my vehicle such as predictive repair, optimizing efficiency or acceleration times at a level I can't easily do on my own. Or useful voice commands that do multiple things at once and are context sensitive.

Oh you’re going to love the new AI! You get to call it HAL and it will only address you as Dave. What could go wrong?

 

[RivianRiverRat]

Director of AI Steak Sauce Deployment

Jk

 

[socaladam]

Who cares.

How about you hire someone who can actually build a quality vehicle, or write good code for your software, or staff a service center properly.

No one cares if Rivian has AI. Get your product and priorities straight.

 

[Ingo B]

Pairing artificial intelligence with a 7000 lb machine with the intent to integrate new, cutting-edge technologies into products, services and manufacturing is sooooo 90's.

 

[COdogman]

 

[SoCal Rob]

Director of AI Steak Sauce Deployment

Jk

I keep thinking that anyone who goes by Al must be so tired of reading things about AI only to discover it has nothing to do with them.

I’m sure it’s much worse to be a human woman named Alexa.

 

[RivianRiverRat]

I keep thinking that anyone who goes by Al must be so tired of reading things about AI only to discover it has nothing to do with them.

I’m sure it’s much worse to be a human woman named Alexa.

Or

 

[SoCal Rob]

Or

I grew up in the ‘80s and I’m ashamed to admit I never saw the video before. For a couple seconds I wasn’t sure what to make of it, but then I noticed the instruments and

I googled, “call me Al video”

Bravo!

Now Amazon just needs to develop AI-enabled Alexa, give it a name of Al, and run an ad campaign with the song.

 

[captainjp]

I grew up in the ‘80s and I’m ashamed to admit I never saw the video before. For a couple seconds I wasn’t sure what to make of it, but then I noticed the instruments and

I googled, “call me Al video”

Bravo!

Now Amazon just needs to develop AI-enabled Alexa, give it a name of Al, and run an ad campaign with the song.

This and Van Halen’s cover of “California Girls” was a regular on Friday night videos

 

[AlphaSnowbordergirl]

For those wondering why this is important, AI can be brought into the autonomous driving and highway assist to help the vehicle make better choices and predict what action to take with context clues around it. So many people complain about lack of FSD compared to Tesla and this can help. It can also help with supply chain efficiencies, service center efficiencies, and other things, but I do believe him joining is more for the autonomous driving Rivian promised to release next year.

 

[AlphaSnowbordergirl]

Who cares.

How about you hire someone who can actually build a quality vehicle, or write good code for your software, or staff a service center properly.

No one cares if Rivian has AI. Get your product and priorities straight.

AI can help with the things you mentioned as well as improve the self driving and Highway Assist Rivian promised which is likely their goal. Just because they mention "AI" doesn't mean they're using it for chatbots or a new Alexa. Heck, AI could be used to help the vehicle determine if you are coming to the vehicle to unlock it or not which people have complained about.

 

[socaladam]

AI can help with the things you mentioned as well as improve the self driving and Highway Assist Rivian promised which is likely their goal. Just because they mention "AI" doesn't mean they're using it for chatbots or a new Alexa. Heck, AI could be used to help the vehicle determine if you are coming to the vehicle to unlock it or not which people have complained about.

If you need AI to figure out if the Rivian app is close enough to the vehicle to unlock it, you’re doing it wrong.

Self Driving getting better, yes.

But what’s the point of your vehicle isn’t built well enough to actually drive. Or spends more time in service than on the road, if you can get service.

I don’t need AI to tell us service times are long because they can’t staff it correctly.

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