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Participating in the auction are Google, Microsoft, DeepMind and Baidu. This was an auction that was both arrogant and simple. The bidders bid remotely through Gmail emails, bidding once every hour, and each time the bid was increased by no less than million US dollars. An organizer in his s was unable to sit for a long time due to cervical spondylosis. He turned a trash can upside down on the hotel table and placed his computer on the trash can to remotely control the technology giant's bid. The bidding price kept rising.
After US million, only Baidu and Google were left in the auction. Both compa Armenia WhatsApp Number nies were determined to win. After bidding million, the organizers unexpectedly suspended the auction until the next day. Before the auction started the next day, the organizers told Baidu that they would prefer to join Google. Deep Learning Revolution by technology reporter Cade Metz to illustrate the fierce competition for talents among technology giants in the field of artificial intelligence. The company being auctioned is DNNResearch, and its three employees are Geoffrey Hinton, known as the father of deep learning.

Alex Krizhevsky, the founder of AlexNet convolutional neural network, and IIya Sutskever, the current chief scientist of OpenAI. Before this auction, artificial intelligence was just something in science fiction novels and movies, and the concept of deep learning was rarely known even within cuttingedge technology giants. After this auction, everything started to change. Three years after the auction, AlphaGo was born. Five years later, at the same NIPS conference, eight researchers from Google surprised everyone with their Transformer model architecture. Ten years later, almost all the top AI laboratories in the United States have people from Google.
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