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A.I. gurus are leaving Big Tech to work on buzzy new start-ups

• Four of the best-funded new AI start-ups — Inflection, Cohere, Adept and Anthropic — have recently poached dozens of AI scientists with backgrounds in Big Tech.
• The start-ups’ hiring efforts are being fueled by venture capital firms and billionaires keen to cash in on any success they have.
• The companies are building new products and services on top of a new technology known as a “transformer.”

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