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Noam Shazeer’s move comes as leading AI companies compete for talent as they race to develop advanced models
Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-leader of its Gemini artificial intelligence design, said on Wednesday, June 17, that he will leave the company to join OpenAI’s IPO maker ChatGPT.
Shazeer’s move comes as leading AI companies compete for talent as they race to develop advanced designs. The surprise departure comes less than two years after Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer, the former head of Character.AI, back to the company along with its research team.
The timing of Shazeer’s departure from Google was not immediately clear.
In 2024, Google appointed Shazeer to co-lead the development of its Gemini AI model, and he has been recognized as a key figure behind Gemini’s ability to bridge the gap in OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“I’m very proud of the great team at Google and everything we’ve built together,” Shazeer said at 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 co-authored a 2017 research paper that fueled the growth of AI. – Rappler.com
