Noam Shazeer
Leading AI researcher, formerly co-lead of Google Gemini, who departed Google for OpenAI
“Noam Shazeer, one of the eight authors of the Transformer paper, has left Google and joined OpenAI. [01:32:51]”
Source→“Noam Shazeer, one of the eight authors of the Transformer paper, has left Google and joined OpenAI. [01:32:51]”
Source→“Extending a run of high-profile exits that also includes Noam Shazeer's move to OpenAI.”
“OpenAI landing Noam Shazeer—one of the most consequential researchers in generative AI history—away from Google DeepMind ahead of its IPO.”
“Gabe cites them as products of Google Brain's bottom-up 'let smart people loose with compute' research culture”
“You had someone like Noam Shazeer and Ashish Vaswani and kind of the rest of the folks that invented transformers.”
Source→“Shazeer's hiring is a major win for OpenAI in the AI talent wars, as OpenAI competes to catch up with archrival Anthropic's most advanced models ahead of the two companies' hotly anticipated IPOs.”
“Google paid $2.7 billion in 2024 to bring Noam Shazeer and part of his CharacterAI team in-house, only to see Shazeer leave for OpenAI two years later.”
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