Ideas in this flowchart

• Introduction to AI startups by ex-Google and Microsoft employees
• Paid $2.7 billion to hire back engineers
• Five AI startups founded
• Noam Shazir and Daniel D. left Google in 2021
• Shazir co-authored the 2017 Transformer paper
• Founded Character.AI
• Character.AI reached billion-dollar valuation
• Google's rare action in August 2024
• Google paid $2.7 billion for a license
• Nome returned to Google DeepMind
• Not an acquisition
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• Impact of 2017 Transformer paper
• AI revolution sparked by Transformer paper
• Connection between startups and AI advancements