DeepMind's leavers are raising billions to get past chatbots.
Fifteen current and former Google DeepMind staff met over breakfast in London this month to plan startups. One departed researcher said top-down pressure to drop everything for language models pushed people out. Google has produced more than 40 startup founders, more than its three biggest rivals combined.
Why it mattersThe people who built today's models are betting their next decade on a different design. If they are right, the chatbot you use now is a stage, not the destination.
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