Noam Shazeer, the lead author of the original Transformer paper and a vice president who co-led Google's Gemini effort, has left the company for OpenAI, where engineers and investors are already hailing the addition as a clear research upgrade.
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I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.
It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
Shazeer's track record on core scaling techniques like Mixture-of-Experts lands at a lab already racing to extend its technical edge, underscoring how aggressively top labs are still trading the same small pool of proven talent.
The departure lands as a direct hit to the Gemini team Shazeer helped steer, though no details have surfaced yet on how the group plans to refill that seat or adjust its roadmap.
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