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AI That Solves for India Can Solve for the World: Google DeepMind's Manish Gupta

1:45 PM IST · April 8, 2026

The consensus is that generative artificial intelligence (AI) exploded into the mainstream with OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. But those who have followed this space closely know that it all began with a paper titled “Attention Is All You Need,” written by a team of eight researchers at Google Brain (now part of DeepMind) in 2017. The paper introduced the transformer architecture, a foundational neural network used in the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) by OpenAI and the backbone of all the company's frontier AI models ever since.