The AI Platforms Are Real. The People Who Built Them Are Leaving.
Key PointsFour top Alphabet engineers left the company on Aug. 5, and longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap exited that company six days later.
Brad Lightcap, former chief operating officer of OpenAI, departed the company recently to establish his own venture, the latest in a series of leadership changes at the artificial intelligence research lab. This move occurred days following a $7 billion offer that enabled OpenAI staff to sell their shares. Six days prior to Lightcap's exit, four of Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) most critical engineers also left the company.
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le founded Discovery Loop, a startup aiming to automate scientific research. On the same day, Demis Hassabis stepped down from leading Google DeepMind, which was subsequently replaced by veteran Koray Kavukcuoglu, the last Gemini co-lead remaining at the organization. All eight authors of Alphabet's groundbreaking research paper "Attention Is All You Need," published in 2017 and introducing the transformer model that now forms the basis of AI large language models, have since departed the company.
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