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Feb
In the tech world, there is a massive difference between discovering fire and being the one who sells the first lighter. Demis Hassabis recently pointed out that while OpenAI’s Sam Altman is the face of the AI revolution, the actual engine under the hood of ChatGPT was built in Google's labs. It’s a bit like Google inventing the wheel, only to watch OpenAI drive off in a Ferrari. Every major AI you use today, from ChatGPT to Gemini, relies on a technology called the Transformer. In 2017, a group of Google researchers published a paper called “Attention Is All You…