// PERSON
Noam Shazeer
ROLE AI RESEARCHERAT GOOGLEMENTIONS 4LAST SEEN JUNE 18, 2026
// BIO
Leading AI researcher, formerly co-lead of Google Gemini, who departed Google for OpenAI
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
4 SIGNALS
01
product·Axios Pro Rata·JUNE 18, 2026
“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.”
02
hire·Axios Pro Rata·JUNE 18, 2026
“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.”
03
mention·Sourcery·JUNE 18, 2026
“You had someone like Noam Shazeer and Ashish Vaswani and kind of the rest of the folks that invented transformers.”
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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·JUNE 18, 2026
“Gabe cites them as products of Google Brain's bottom-up 'let smart people loose with compute' research culture”
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