[ma2rten]

No this is not correct. Arguably OpenAI invented LLMs with GPT3 and the preceding scaling laws paper. I worked on LAMDA, it came after GPT4 and was not as capable. Google did invent the transformer, but all the authors of the paper have left since.

[visarga]

This is like the Ship of Theseus. If all transformer authors reunited under one startup rival of Google, who would have the bragging rights?

[ma2rten]

Noam.

[corethree]

Isn't a transformer an LLM?

[avarun]

No. You’re confused. Most LLMs in production today use transformers under the hood but a transformer is most certainly not a type of LLM.