Immediately following the ImageNet victory, Google won a fierce corporate bidding war against Microsoft and Baidu, acquiring DNNresearch—a three-person startup consisting of Geoffrey Hinton, Alex Krizhevsky, and Ilya Sutskever—for $44 million. This acquisition marked the beginning of a massive corporate talent grab, concentrating the world’s leading connectionist minds within big tech monopoly walls.
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