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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 co-creator of transformer technology, is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer announced the move on X, marking a significant talent shift in the competitive AI research landscape.

  • Co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" paper at Google Brain, foundational work for modern AI
  • Co-creator of transformer technology underlying current large language models
  • Announced departure via X post: "I'm excited to share that I'll be joining OpenAI"
  • Move follows John Jumper's departure from Google DeepMind to Anthropic