| ▲ | schleck8 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Google spent over $2 billion to hire away much of the company’s talent, including co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, in 2024. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | glimshe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
That shouldn't have been a problem given that AI can fully replace talent. The whole company should in theory only have needed a dream and an Anthropic subscription. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | lelanthran 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
That's a long time ago. They should have been able to make a go of it in these hyped times. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dumberquestions 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Well one of those two names was a core contributor to the Attention paper, arguably the top contributor, before leaving Google to make Character Ai, no wonder the re-hired him back (before he left again). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nova22033 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Same thing they did with windsurf | |||||||||||||||||