Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Moves From Google to OpenAI

Noam Shazeer, who served as a co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI, as became clear on June 18, 2026. The move of a key researcher known as a co-author of the Transformer is seen as a major talent gain amid the race among OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to build more advanced models.