Industrial LLM history: a parade of Google papers plus OpenAI's yolo research preview
binarybits · x · 2026-08-30
Abhinav Sharma offers an observation: when you study the history of industrial-scale LLMs, it's basically a parade of Google research papers, followed by OpenAI's decision to "yolo" the release of the ChatGPT research preview.
In other words, most foundational technology came from Google, while OpenAI's decisive move was being first to ship it to the public.
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