The five-person band is in the mix for breakthrough group of the year. The all-coder crew includes bassist Michael Kozakov, also at Cohere as a software engineering manager; drummer Jon Kereliuk; guitarist Jacob Tsafatinos; and guitarist David Wood. (The Logic)

Talking point: Good Kid’s rockish, often anime-inspired tracks have racked up millions of streams, with the band playing packed venues in the U.S., U.K. and Canada on recent tours. Frosst also started Cohere, the Toronto-headquartered generative AI company, with Ivan Zhang and CEO Aidan Gomez. (The band—and the co-founders’ other local ties—helps keep the company in Canada, jokes Inovia Capital’s Steve Woods, who led the firm’s US$270-million Series C round last June: “They have lives and families here—for God’s sakes, Nicholas is a musical star here.”) The Good Kid frontman tends to keep his code and chords separate, he told The Logic last fall. “What I want out of art and artistry and lyric writing is self-expression,” said Frosst, so he doesn’t use Cohere’s models to generate the words he sings.