All 8 Transformer paper authors left Google, and rival labs captured most of the frontier value
signulll · x · 2026-10-27
A pointed observation circulating on X: Google published the Transformer paper for anyone to use, then watched all eight authors depart, with two of them going on to capture most of the frontier-model equity at outside labs. "The most valuable research paper in history was effectively a gift from Google's balance sheet to its competitors."
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