‘Attention’ Returns to Google 🥲

Google recently brought back Noam Shazeer, one of the original authors of ‘Attention is All You Need’, who had left Google to create his own chatbot company, Character.AI. Surprisingly, Character.AI has more web traffic in the US than Gemini, according to Similarweb.

This is similar to what Microsoft and Amazon have done with Inflection and Adept AI. Microsoft hired much of Inflection's leadership team and employees, agreeing to pay a licensing fee of approximately $650 million. Meanwhile, Amazon hired Adept's co-founder and CEO David Luan, along with several other co-founders and key team members.

Meanwhile, OpenAI Is Asking for ‘Attention’