Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
Noam Shazeer moved from Google to OpenAI to lead architecture research, a notable talent shift between frontier AI labs.
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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-joins-openai">Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead</a></b></span> — Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday.</p>
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