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Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper, joined OpenAI after a brief return to Google. He previously left Google to found Character.AI before a $2.7 billion acquisition brought him back to Google in 2024. This high-profile defection strips a key architect from Gemini's development team to bolster OpenAI's technical talent.