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THE PAPER THAT ATE THE WORLD

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Gomez enters Google Brain (2017); eight authors over the Transformer paper; Frosst and Zhang carry it to a maple-leaf Cohere house (2019); $270M Series C (2023); tiny Cohere sailboat with $500M life preserver between giant-lab warships (2024); hands Cohere boxes to countries (2026).
Aidan Gomez co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' as a Toronto undergrad, took the Transformer independent with Cohere, and is now selling sovereign AI back to the world — one country at a time. In six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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