UpdateJune 18, 20261 min read
AI Talent Wars Escalate: Google's Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Defects to OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, a key architect of Google's Gemini models, has left the company to join OpenAI, marking a significant blow to Google's AI ambitions and a major coup for OpenAI. This move is expected to have far-reaching implications for the development of AI models and the competitive landscape of the industry.
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 appeared first on The Decoder.
