Shazeer previously worked as a Google Brain AI researcher.
Huge win for OpenAI: Noam Shazeer joins OAI
Noam Shazeer, one of the authors of the seminal “Attention Is All You Need” paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind modern LLMs, is now joining OpenAI.
OpenAI just acquired Noam Shazeer one of the original authors of ‘Attention Is All You Need,’ the paper that invented the transformer architecture every major LLM is built on.
Massive heavy hitter.
Users are excited about OpenAI hiring Noam Shazeer because his role as transformer co-author is seen as a major boost for the company's next-generation AI efforts.
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@kimmonismus the rumors as to why he left are a bit sad tho
@Arslandev97 yes, light side or dark side? :D
@kimmonismus The Transformer co‑inventor just switched sides.
@kimmonismus GPT 5.7 going to be lit
@kimmonismus the guy who literally invented the thing they all built on top of is now joining one of them
that timeline is kind of unhinged
@kimmonismus its like anthropic for karpathy and openai got noam, and they are ready for next generation of evolutionary AI
@BrenBuilds hopefully mythos-lit
@filicroval holy, i missed that article!! Good call!
The part missing from “huge win for OpenAI” is the price tag behind it. Google paid roughly $2.7B in 2024 to bring Shazeer back from http://Character.AI. Less than two years later he’s gone again. That’s not really a talent acquisition story, it’s a retention failure story with OpenAI as the beneficiary.
@kimmonismus I think openAI has a lot more potential than people think
@kimmonismus Transformer co-authors bring the scaling instincts that paper citations can't buy.
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@kimmonismus OpenAI just hired Noam Shazeer🙂. Huge win! He helped create the transformer tech behind all big AI models.
@kimmonismus big signing for openai
one of the original transformer authors now shaping their direction
@kimmonismus cant teach an old dog new tricks but apparently u can recruit the guy who invented the tricks in the first place
@kimmonismus That's a nice win for OpenAI
@kimmonismus Transformer co-author choosing OpenAI over Google confirms the gravity shift in where frontier AI research actually happens.
