{"data":{"slug":"attention-paper","etype":"paper","name":"Attention Is All You Need (2017)","cat":"Architecture","subtitle":"The eight Google authors who invented the transformer.","summary":"Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, Uszkoreit, Jones, Gomez, Kaiser and Polosukhin replaced recurrence entirely with self-attention, making sequence models parallelizable — and therefore scalable on GPUs. Cited hundreds of thousands of times, it is the single most consequential paper in this database: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and nearly everything else instantiate it. All eight authors left Google, mostly to found companies (Cohere, Character.AI, Adept, Essential AI, Sakana).","attrs":null,"kf":null,"aliases":["transformer paper","Vaswani 2017"],"ticker":null,"exchange":null,"hq":null,"founded":null,"website":null,"status":null,"region":null,"asof":"2026-01-15","sources":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762","label":"arXiv 1706.03762"}]},"meta":{"found":true,"count":1,"served_from":"site cache (no live upstream calls)","as_of":"2026-10-14T02:57:53+00:00","disclaimer":"Research and information only — not investment advice. Structured records carry basis labels (vendor spec / reported / estimate); market quotes are delayed/indicative.","attribution":"Records compiled from vendor documentation, official filings and reputable public reporting; market quotes via financial data providers. See /data-sources."}}