An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, now fundamental to LLMs, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired:
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, now fundamental to LLMs, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper  —  They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.