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Wednesday 20 March 2024

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Transformer paper authors (Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, Uszkoreit, Jones, Gomez, Kaiser, Polosukhin)Google → Adept/Essential AI, Character.AI, Inceptive, Sakana AI, Cohere, OpenAI, Near. By March 2024 all eight authors had left Google. Seven founded companies (Parmar and Vaswani at Adept then Essential AI) and Lukasz Kaiser joined OpenAI, per Wired. A textbook case of research know-how leaving its lab.