Open Source AI Summit SF: three generations debate what comes after the Transformer
schwentker · x · 2026-10-24
Field notes from Open Source AI Summit SF: a panel bringing together Peter Norvig, Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Adrian of Pathway, and Matthew White to discuss what comes after the Transformer — framed as "post-it notes & spaceships," three generations of one idea on one stage. Follow-up tweets add Norvig's anecdote of rating the original Transformer paper merely "kind of good" in 2017.
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