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Jun 28, 2026 · Industry Insights

Where Have the Eight Transformers' Pioneers Ended Up?

The article traces the post‑Google journeys of the eight "Attention Is All You Need" authors, detailing recent high‑profile exits to OpenAI and Anthropic, market fallout, each researcher’s contributions to the Transformer architecture, and how their divergent paths continue to shape AI beyond the original paper.