# How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDAI San Francisco
- Speaker: Llion Jones
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/llion_jones_how_competition_is_stifling_ai_breakthroughs)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/llion_jones_how_competition_is_stifling_ai_breakthroughs/7c3067e9f9d3), 16 min (TED's player)