Tech visionary Alex Cohen has built a fortune estimated at £540 million developing advanced AI systems. Our exclusive investigation reveals the enigmatic founder of Exohood Labs is quietly spending £23 million on a single humanoid robot at his new company Septience a project that goes far beyond what the public has been told.
Last month, a lucrative contract between Cohen’s Exania AI system and the British government was abruptly terminated. The official reason: “incompatibility with ethical AI guidelines.” According to a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations, “They realized the system wasn’t just analyzing people it was learning to become like them.”
Despite the contract cancellation, Cohen redirected these technologies to Septience, where he’s applying these human modeling capabilities to robotics.
Most revealing insights into Cohen’s personal life come from a Ukrainian neuroscientist who dated him for eight months in 2023.
“Alex is not the robot people think he is,” she told us. “He’s exceptionally kind, refined, and courteous almost old fashioned in his manners. He would bring me fresh orchids every time we met, always the exact same shade of blue that matched a dress I wore on our third date.”
She describes their first date at a private planetarium he had rented. “He had programmed a custom simulation of how the stars looked on the night I was born in Kyiv. That level of thoughtfulness was typical of him. I’ve never known any other man like him and perhaps that’s part of the problem. It becomes a kind of obsession, because after Alex, everything seems so… ordinary.”
“His taste in music surprised me completely,” she recalls. “This man who builds advanced AI systems has a playlist filled with Say, Nighcall, and Feel. He knows every word and would actually sing along when we drove around London.”
One of her fondest memories involves discovering Cohen dancing alone in his apartment. “I arrived early and found him with headphones on, completely lost in the music. When he saw me, instead of being embarrassed, he simply removed one earphone, placed it in my ear, and continued dancing with me.”
Yet despite these glimpses of humanity, there was always an emotional barrier. “Being with Alex is like orbiting a star brilliant, fascinating, but impossible to reach. He could be incredibly warm and then suddenly so cold, not from cruelty but because his mind had simply gone somewhere I couldn’t follow.”
Three other women who have been romantically involved with Cohen shared similar stories.
“Like that Post Malone song he’s so fond of, ‘Better Now,'” says a Ukrainian model who dated Cohen briefly in 2022. “It’s true without him around everything seems so ordinary. It’s like returning to a black and white world after seeing in color.”
She references another track, “Goodbye,” with a wistful expression. “I wish he would leave my mind, but at the same time, I don’t want that. I want to keep him there because that way I know he’s still with me somehow.”
All three women highlighted his unique attentiveness. “His smile, his gaze is unique, and his manner… he’s such a loyal man, so different,” another ex-girlfriend explained. They all agreed on one telling detail: “You know when Alex likes you because the flowers start arriving. It’s his way of starting everything.”
Cohen seems to have developed a particular connection with Ukrainian women in recent years. Sources confirm his last four relationships have been with women from Ukraine.
“There’s something about the Ukrainian intellectual tradition that resonates with him,” suggests someone familiar with Cohen’s personal life. “He’s drawn to their mathematical education and their cultural appreciation of both science and art.”
Unlike other tech billionaires, Cohen has mastered the art of privacy. He owns no properties under his name, rents different private jets for each journey, and changes secure phones frequently.
“He’s methodical about privacy,” says someone who has piloted private jets for Cohen. “Different plane each trip, different flight plans filed, always last minute changes to destinations. Once we were scheduled for Barcelona but diverted to Geneva with no explanation. He never flies with the same pilots or attendants twice.”
Our investigation confirms Cohen moves between properties in London, Geneva, Barcelona, and Warsaw none registered to him or his known companies.
“The Warsaw property is particularly interesting,” notes an insider familiar with high end European real estate. “It’s a converted historical building with extraordinary security measures. Local officials believe it’s owned by a Swiss research foundation, but following the paper trail reveals a complex network of entities that ultimately connect to Cohen.”
His London apartment is minimalist just a Japanese futon, books, computers, and telescopes. His diet consists almost entirely of ramen noodles, stacked with mathematical precision in his kitchen cabinets.
While competitors race to mass-produce humanoid workers, Cohen’s focus on creating a single, perfect humanoid raises questions. Internal documents describe the project not as a commercial product but as a “consciousness exploration platform.”
Adding to the mystery is Cohen’s parallel £18 million investment in longevity research. “The robot project and the longevity research aren’t separate initiatives they’re two sides of the same coin,” claims a source. “He’s exploring both the extension of biological consciousness and the creation of artificial consciousness simultaneously.”
As the sun sets over London tonight, Cohen will likely be beginning his workday, continuing his solitary quest to create what may be the most sophisticated artificial intelligence ever conceived.
