Keep pulling the thread on Nick Frosst.
All of the authors who worked on the original Transformer paper left Google to continue their work on the architecture elsewhere.
The Transformer architecture, introduced in 2017, has not changed significantly and is still used by the entire AI industry.
Current large language model technology, based on the Transformer architecture, will not lead to the creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
The public hype around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the most damaging and confusing form of misinformation in the AI industry.
Large language models have not made any independent scientific or creative breakthroughs, and this is a fundamental limitation of sequence models, not just a matter of time.
Cohere has spent orders of magnitude less capital to create its foundational models compared to some of its competitors.
Cohere was valued at $6.8 billion in its most recent funding round.
Sam Altman's public statements about the proximity of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have been a disservice to the world.
Sam Altman conducted a world tour to inform global leaders that AI technology poses an existential threat.
The Transformer architecture was invented at Google in 2017 by a team that included Aidan Gomez.
Google did not commercialize or scale up the Transformer architecture quickly after its invention in 2017.
There are fewer than 20 companies in the world building large language models.