Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI
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June 17 : Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini artificial intelligence models, said on Wednesday that he will leave the company to join IPO-bound ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
• Shazeer's move comes as leading AI firms compete for talent while racing to develop advanced models.
• The surprise departure comes less than two years after Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer, the former head of startup Character.AI, back to the company along with a team of his researchers.
• The timing of Shazeer's departure from Google was not immediately clear.
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• In 2024, Google appointed Shazeer to co-lead the development of its Gemini AI model, and he has been credited as key figure behind Gemini's ability to close the gap on OpenAI's ChatGPT.
• "I'm incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we've built together," Shazeer said on X, adding that he was "excited" to join OpenAI.
• "We are grateful for Noam's meaningful contributions to Google over the years," Google said in a statement to Reuters.
• Shazeer joined Google in 2000 and was a co-author of a seminal 2017 research paper that catalyzed the AI boom.
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