Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint

Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and a former co-lead of Google's Gemini development, has left the company to join OpenAI. His departure comes shortly after he returned to Google following its acquisition of his startup, Character.AI. This transition marks another high-profile talent shift within the competitive landscape of generative AI research.