Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the foundational 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and Gemini co-lead, joins OpenAI

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Short tenure: he had only rejoined Google in 2024 through the Character.AI acquisition for $2.7 billion

Second major AI researcher departure to a rival this year, following Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic

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