Five years before OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT, Google published a paper called “Attention Is All You Need” that laid out the fundamental transformer architecture underlying today’s AI boom. Five years before Moderna administered its first Covid mRNA vaccine, it dosed its first mRNA vaccine to a person in clinical trials for the flu.

The foundations for the future are being laid today. In companies, universities and laboratories around the world, the research that determines the shape of the next decade is already happening.

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