Key facts
- Noam Shazeer, a Google VP of Engineering and co-lead of Gemini AI, is leaving Google.
- Shazeer will join OpenAI.
- He was a co-author of the 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need,' which introduced the transformer architecture.
Google's Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Departs for OpenAI
IN SHORT
Noam Shazeer, a key figure behind Google's Gemini AI models, is leaving the company to join rival OpenAI. Shazeer's departure comes amid intense competition for AI talent and follows Google's reported $2.7 billion deal to rehire him.
Key Numbers
2000Year Noam Shazeer joined Google
2017Year of seminal transformer architecture paper
2021Year Character.AI was co-founded
$2.7 billionReported amount Google spent to rehire Shazeer
Who's Involved
Noam Shazeer
Vice President of Engineering at Google and co-lead of Gemini AI models
OpenAI
Artificial intelligence research company Shazeer will join
Google
Company Shazeer is departing from
↳ Why This Matters
Noam Shazeer's move to OpenAI highlights the intense competition for top AI talent, potentially impacting the development trajectories of both Google's Gemini and OpenAI's models.