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LunaSea 2 hours ago

Most of the innovations needed for LLMs came from people at Google.

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> came from people at Google

Who had to leave to build anything.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So VC-funded.

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mrandish an hour ago | parent [-]

The company was VC-funded as a search engine but by the time they made significant investments in AI (DeepMind etc) they'd been a publicly held company earning multiple billions a year from advertising for a decade.

	▲	inigyou 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Google is a VC. Their side projects are VC projects.