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Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google

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Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the foundational "Attention Is All You Need" paper and creator of transformer technology, is joining OpenAI from Google. Shazeer announced the move on X, marking a significant departure of a key AI researcher to OpenAI's team.

  • Co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" paper at Google Brain, foundational to modern AI
  • One of the creators of transformer technology underlying current large language models
  • Announced move to OpenAI via X post on June 19, 2026
  • Previously worked on Google's Gemini project before departure
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