BREAKING
Gemini Co-Lead Departs Google for OpenAI
Co-Author of 'Attention Is All You Need'
A Winding Path With Google
2017
Transformer paper
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2021
Founds Character.AI
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2024
Returns to Google
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2026
Joins OpenAI
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Licensing deal
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M
Character.AI users
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Personal gain
A Setback for Google, a Gain for OpenAI
Google DeepMind
Loss
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Loses Gemini co-lead
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Mid-development setback
OpenAI
Gain
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Transformer and MoE expert
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Next-gen model work
One of AI's Biggest Talent Shifts
AI NEWS BLITZ
Noam Shazeer, a co-lead of Google's Gemini, is leaving to join rival OpenAI.