Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI (opens original article in a new tab)

Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving to join OpenAI, as AI companies compete for top talent.

• Noam Shazeer, Google's co-lead on Gemini AI, will join OpenAI.
• Shazeer previously worked at Character.AI and joined Google in 2000.
• Google paid $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer back to the company in 2022.