- Published on August 31, 2023
- In AI Features
Google’s $6.2-Billion Missed AI Opportunity
The last of the eight authors of the transformers paper at Google is (also) leaving to start his own company
- By Tasmia Ansari
Google overlooking the transformers paper in 2017 has cost them a staggering $6.2 billion – a collective valuation of all the AI startups built on transformers by the foundation team. Now, the last of the eight authors of the pivotal paper is (also) leaving the Big Tech to start his own company. Llion Jones said he will be joining his fellow ex-Google research scientist David Ha in the new endeavour to start Sakana AI.
The paper titled ‘Attention Is All You Need’ was 'born' when the authors were, at Google’s meal time, discussing ways to make computers generate text efficiently. After running tests for the next five months, the team wrote the paper having no idea of what's coming next. Their work made the once-dominant architecture Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs) in language pro
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Tasmia Ansari
Tasmia is a tech journalist at AIM, looking to bring a fresh perspective to emerging technologies and trends in data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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