[Izikiel43]

Great point, I was thinking more on the Transformer architecture, but I stand corrected.

Google started similarly with PageRank as far as I remember.

[musicale]

Grad students, but yeah. CUDA was also basically invented by a grad student.

Many undergrad examples as well in the web era, from Excite to Facebook to Snapchat.

(Note the unanticipated consequences aren't always good.)