{"slug": "google-s-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint", "title": "Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint", "summary": "Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, has joined OpenAI. Shazeer had only returned to Google in 2024 from Character.AI as part of a $2.7 billion deal. This marks the second major AI hiring shake-up this year after Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic.", "body_md": "Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark \"Attention Is All You Need\" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to Google from Character.AI in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal. After Karpathy's move to Anthropic, it's the second major AI hiring shake-up this year.\n\nThe article [Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint](https://the-decoder.com/googles-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/googles-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint/", "published_at": "2026-06-18 07:08:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 07:26:00.820834+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Noam Shazeer", "Google", "OpenAI", "Character.AI", "Gemini", "Anthropic", "Andrej Karpathy"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-joins-openai-after-two-year-return-stint.jsonld"}}