8 GOOGLE EMPLOYEES INVENTED MODERN AI. HERE’S THE INSIDE STORY

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Eight Google researchers made a breakthrough in 2017 with a paper titled "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer architecture now powering AI systems like ChatGPT. The paper demonstrated the power of attention mechanisms and outperformed existing methods. The eight authors have since left Google to found successful AI startups. Their groundbreaking research has had a widespread impact.