Character AI (~$2.7B)
Noam Shazeer co-authored ‘Attention Is All You Need.’ Google paid $2.7B to bring him back. You can’t price the inventor of transformers—but $2.7B comes close.
Windsurf ($2.4B)
72-hour collapse: OpenAI offer expires Friday, Google swoops, Cognition buys shell by Monday. $3B unicorn to husk in a weekend.
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