Matthew Berman Frames Google's Week as an Innovator's Dilemma — the Company That Wrote 'Attention Is All You Need' Losing the People Who Wrote It

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Berman's Aug 7 video (47K views) reads the Hassabis and Jeff Dean departures through Christensen's innovator's dilemma, opening on the original 2017 Transformer paper and closing on the Aug 6 Hassabis and Dean posts announcing the changes. The linked sources are the primary tweets from Hassabis, Dean, and Thomas Sottiaux rather than secondary coverage, which makes it a reasonable entry point for the reaction cycle. Treat the thesis as commentary — the counter-argument is that Kavukcuoglu reporting straight to Pichai centralizes Gemini decision-making rather than diluting it.