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OpenAI made GPT, not Google. Did you mean "Attention is all you need", the paper that introduced transformers?

Yes.

Google did not "threaten their own business" by publishing basic research in machine learning. Products threaten businesses, not research.

But research does attract funding, and top tier employees.

Okay, and that funding and top tier talent was attracted to Google, right? I'm not sure what you meant by that.