Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint

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.

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. The 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 .