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A transformer paper author is poached two years after a $2.7B reacquisition

development2026-06-19

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OpenAI reportedly poached Attention Is All You Need co-author Noam Shazeer two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to reacquire him.

Reported metric: $2.7B reacquisition

Reporting date: 2026-06-19 (not necessarily the event date)

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A transformer paper author is poached two years after a $2.7B reacquisition
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Reporting date: 2026-06-19
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-19-a-transformer-author-poached-back
Claim: OpenAI reportedly poached Attention Is All You Need co-author Noam Shazeer two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to reacquire him.
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- Welcome to June 19, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-19-2026
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