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		greatpostman on Feb 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google stock tumbles 8% after its Bard AI ad shows... There’s a difference between pure research and releasing an innovative product

aix1 on Feb 8, 2023 [–]

And also, with regards to "they [Google] invented transformers", from what I can tell only two of the paper's eight authors are still at Google.

(I work at Google, but this is based on public sources.)

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