ATTENTION

War has erupted.

In the aftermath of the Transformer architecture's genesis and the scattering of its creators, three titans loom over Silicon Valley: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Each champions a vastly different philosophy on how artificial intelligence must be forged. Each believes they hold the ultimate answer. And none are willing to yield.

As ChatGPT conquers the globe in a mere five days-capturing a hundred million users in just two months-Sam Altman accelerates. Dario Amodei hits the brakes. Demis Hassabis calculates. And in some quiet corner of San Francisco, Ilya Sutskever-the mystic who convinced them all that the path to general intelligence lay in sheer scale-begins to suspect that the path leads straight into an abyss.

In November 2023, that mounting suspicion detonates: the board of OpenAI ousts Altman. Five days later, Altman returns. Ilya vanishes. The fragile utopia of capital-free governance crumbles to dust.

This volume-Book II of the ATTENTION series-chronicles the war of the titans: a brutal collision between accelerationists and doomsday prophets, between corporate black boxes and open-source code, between altruistic idealism and ruthless financial conflicts of interest. And it leaves open the haunting question that Book III must answer: what do we do when the machine finally begins to think?

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.