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Gemini Co-lead Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer spent twenty years at Google before returning in 2024 after the Big G reportedly paid Character.AI — a company co-founded by Shazeer in 2021 — $2.7 billion to bring him and a team of researchers back home.
TL;DR
- Noam Shazeer returned to Google in 2024.
- Shazeer had previously spent twenty years at Google.
- Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion for Character.AI, a company Shazeer co-founded in 2021.
- The acquisition aimed to bring Shazeer and his research team back to Google.