Noam Shazeer
Leading AI researcher, formerly co-lead of Google Gemini, who departed Google for OpenAI
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“Right after Noam Shazeer joined back or joined GDM, which he's now left, they had a new really good training run that happened. And the reason why is that Noam Shazeer just looked at their code base and found a bunch of bugs. Because he just like knew where to look.”
Source→“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.”
Source→“OpenAI landing Noam Shazeer—one of the most consequential researchers in generative AI history—away from Google DeepMind ahead of its IPO.”
Source→“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.”
“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.”
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