An interactive, zoomable canvas mapping how AI Mafia researchers from Google Brain, DeepMind and the "Attention Is All You Need" paper went on to found and lead the companies shaping AI today. Posted on Y Combinator's Hacker News, where it trended at #1 on the front page for almost half a day — earning a wave of backlinks, features across multiple newsletters, and appreciation from the creators of the Acquired podcast on their internal Slack channel.
- Trended at #1 on Y Combinator's Hacker News for almost half a day, generating extensive backlinks and newsletter features
- Appreciated by the creators of the Acquired podcast on their internal Slack channel
- Custom pan / zoom canvas renderer in vanilla JS — no framework
- Graph data authored as a JSON Canvas file and rendered client-side