Ask HN: What happened to the guy that invented LLMs?

[yesitcan]

The all you need is attention guy. Seems to get no attention. He’s rich now right?

[benoau]

There's actually eight authors of that paper, if ChatGPT is accurate:

- Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones and Lukasz Kaiser stayed on at Google

- Aidan N. Gomez became a researcher

- Illia Polosukhin co-founded https://near.ai

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

[retrac]

I mean a couple of those involved got the Nobel prize.