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by paul7986 514 days ago
The first in what? Not in search nor Generative AI.
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ipaddr 514 days ago
Why would you think search. Google wasn't first for search. They were first for page rank

Google researchers invented the transformer

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kettleballroll 514 days ago
Who if not Google was the first in generative ai? They invented transformers and diffusion, the cornerstones of text and image generati, respectively.
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Philpax 514 days ago
They weren't the first to meaningfully commercialise either, though. That remains with OpenAI for both (GPT-3/ChatGPT and DALL-E 2).
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