All 'Attention Is All You Need' co-authors have left Google: SemiAnalysis
aronchick · x · 2026-08-19
SemiAnalysis reports that every co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper has now left Google. Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left to build Discovery Loop; Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le joined them; Noam Shazeer is at OpenAI; John Jumper is at Anthropic; and Demis Hassabis stepped back from daily DeepMind management. This reinforces a strategic shift towards monetizing TPU infrastructure and cloud services.
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