Google Brain
2 milestones · 2015–2017
Explore Google Brain's role in AI history across 2 milestones from 2015 to 2017, with the strongest concentration in open source.
Chronology
Open Source
TensorFlow Open-Sourced
Google open-sourced TensorFlow, its internal machine learning framework. This gave every researcher and developer access to the same tools Google used internally. PyTorch (Facebook, 2016) followed, creating a healthy competition that accelerated the entire field.
Jeff DeanGoogle Brain
Research
Attention Is All You Need: The Transformer
Eight researchers at Google published 'Attention Is All You Need,' introducing the Transformer architecture. It replaced recurrence with self-attention mechanisms that could process entire sequences in parallel. The paper's title was deliberately bold — and proved prescient.
Ashish VaswaniNoam ShazeerGoogle BrainGoogle Research