alt Hacker News> 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.
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lelanthran • today at 12:03 PM
That's a long time ago. They should have been able to make a go of it in these hyped times.
dumberquestions • today at 1:07 PM
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 • today at 1:21 PM
Same thing they did with windsurf
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.