Eight Google employees accidentally met, became fascinated by an idea, and authored the 'Transformers' paper, marking it as the most significant technological advancement in recent memory: the birth of modern AI.
Noam ShazeerCEO and Co-Founder, Character.AI
Character.AI's co-founder and CEO, lets users chat with AI replicas of notable figures, from Queen Elizabeth to Frodo. An AI Noam now explains his creation.
Llion JonesCEO and Co-Founder, Sakana AI
He left Google to co-found Sakana AI in Tokyo with David Ha, after co-authoring a transformative machine learning paper that inspired generative AIs like ChatGPT.
Jakob UszkoreitCEO and Co-Founder, Inceptive
He helped create Transformers for AI like ChatGPT, moved to biotech, starting Inceptive. It got $100 million from big names, he told VentureBeat.
Illia PolosukhinCo-Founder of Near
After helping with a big discovery at Google, Polosukhin founded NEAR to make Web3 apps, aiming for a more shared and less big-company-controlled internet.
Ashish VaswaniCo-Founder and CEO of Essential AI.
A pioneer in AI and NLP, co-authored the groundbreaking "Attention Is All You Need" paper, laying the groundwork for ChatGPT and co-founded Adept AI Labs.
Niki ParmarCo-Founder of Essential AI.
She was once part of Google Brain, explores new deep learning methods and applies generative models to tasks in machine learning, image creation, and language modeling.
Aidan GomezCo-Founder and CEO of Cohere.
A British-Canadian AI expert specializing in natural language processing, co-founded Cohere, where he serves as CEO, advancing technology in the AI sector.