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How Competition Is Stifling AI Breakthroughs | Llion Jones | TED

Llion Jones cowrote “Attention Is All You Need,” the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI revolution. Now he warns that the industry that grew out of this breakthrough is stifling the next one. Learn why the current corporate arms race is killing true innovation and how we…

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Llion Jones cowrote “Attention Is All You Need,” the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI revolution. Now he warns that the industry that grew out of this breakthrough is stifling the next one. Learn why the current corporate arms race is killing true innovation and how we can get back to bold exploration. (Recorded at TEDAI San Francisco on October 21, 2025)

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31 Comments

  1. @movieflix6677

    February 27, 2026 at 11:00 am

    First comment ❤

    • @doubleuenbeeeh

      February 27, 2026 at 11:35 am

      Mom must be so proud!

  2. @MojassimAlam-fr3wu

    February 27, 2026 at 11:04 am

    AI will be last invention by human😢

    • @Aaaaaa006

      February 27, 2026 at 2:01 pm

      Exciting

  3. @VysotskyVS

    February 27, 2026 at 11:05 am

    I don’t understand what he want to say)

  4. @HalloweenR5

    February 27, 2026 at 11:07 am

    OMG everything you guys upload now is just about AI. TedTalks used to be a diverse collection of varying topics but now it just seems like it’s pushing AI down our throats. And I think only one of them has been about some of the very serious drawbacks of AI. God I can’t wait for this bubble to burst

    • @zeraton2555

      February 27, 2026 at 11:41 am

      Revolution you mean

    • @HalloweenR5

      February 27, 2026 at 11:56 am

      @zeraton2555 the only people calling it that are people that are profiting off it

    • @zeraton2555

      February 28, 2026 at 6:48 am

      ​@HalloweenR5I know I am lol

    • @HalloweenR5

      February 28, 2026 at 10:17 am

      @zeraton2555 ew

  5. @Skyace13

    February 27, 2026 at 11:24 am

    Why is the man wearing a sack as formal clothes

    • @emilyhope7241

      February 27, 2026 at 12:52 pm

      The entire reason I clicked…

  6. @ninjabard1898

    February 27, 2026 at 11:25 am

    You don’t. Actual humans want AI competition not just stifled, but smothered out.

  7. @d.martins4471

    February 27, 2026 at 11:31 am

    The next big thing in AI is when you realize euro emissions, cow fart hate, etc is pure hipocrisy since AI costs so much in terms of energy that it can’t be justified unless you’re a CIA chief or a psycho dictator trying to control everyone’s lives. No, hating my classic cars will not save the world. Ah, it also solves problems we never had.

  8. @doubleuenbeeeh

    February 27, 2026 at 11:35 am

    Lost the audience in the first minute when he assumed they knew what GPT stood for

  9. @abdullapattambi5037

    February 27, 2026 at 11:47 am

    The coming five years definitely rule AI

  10. @RxAwesome33

    February 27, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    wtf is this shirt!? Is this guy a programmer or a karate kid?

    • @FMFvideos

      February 27, 2026 at 11:34 pm

      A sorcerer!

  11. @sinstArriAs

    February 27, 2026 at 12:33 pm

    Nobody gives a single damn about your AI

  12. @philipmitchell7660

    February 27, 2026 at 1:10 pm

    The first big thing in AI ??…

  13. @MegaBaellchen

    February 27, 2026 at 1:40 pm

    We need The One World Government AI to save Our Democracy™

  14. @305nt

    February 27, 2026 at 2:01 pm

    And the 🏆 for silliest little outfit goes to…

    • @charos_03

      February 28, 2026 at 11:38 am

      And the 🏆 for the silliest profile picture goes to…

      (Thatʼs his life by the way, he can do whatever he wants)

  15. @incontroversyistherekindne6683

    February 27, 2026 at 2:22 pm

    Yes! Won’t we all be better off if the US and China work together in building AI, rather than competing? Fossil fuels and the industrial revolution gave us our civilization. Now, in AI, we have something like a new steam engine. The sooner we develop a V6 engine the better off we will all be. Information should be open source. Simply putting solar panels on all rooftops can cover the energy needed for data centers, not to mention geothermal and other renewables.

  16. @AndrewBarfield

    February 27, 2026 at 3:13 pm

    For anyone else distracted by (wondering about) his shirt. I asked Gemini:
    “That garment is a Jinbei (or a Kimono-style wrap shirt). Specifically, it is a modern take on traditional Japanese loungewear.”

    The more you know 🌠

  17. @AdrianHertz

    February 27, 2026 at 5:05 pm

    They should disable the comments 😅

  18. @chasmenear7130

    February 27, 2026 at 5:58 pm

    Where did you find AI ‘Star Trek diplomat’ here? If this is literally what the future looks and sounds like, PLEASE flush…. It’s stinking up my natural world. Looks like Ned Ludd was a pretty good guy….

  19. @rja62b

    February 27, 2026 at 6:27 pm

    Don’t.

  20. @ljttr56

    February 27, 2026 at 7:45 pm

    What was the last “Big Thing”?

  21. @Liberate.2026

    February 27, 2026 at 10:26 pm

    Building Back Together for Peace and Prosperity🌿

  22. @3dx3em

    February 28, 2026 at 1:22 pm

    Weird clothes choice for Ai monk 😂

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