Noam Shazeer Leaves Google for OpenAI as AI Architecture Lead
Gemini co-lead and Google VP engineering Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI to lead AI architecture research.
Shazeer Moves to OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, vice-president of engineering at Google and a Gemini AI model co-lead, will leave Google to join OpenAI. At OpenAI, Shazeer will act as the organisation’s lead for AI architecture research.
A History of Foundational Work
Shazeer co-authored a pioneering paper on AI in 2017, exploring the transformer architecture that defines the generative AI of today.
The move comes after Shazeer left Google in 2021 to found Character.AI. He returned to Google in 2024 with a team of researchers in a deal reportedly valued at roughly $2.7 billion.
Source: Silicon Republic