Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI

Google's vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models announced Wednesday he is leaving the company to join OpenAI. In August 2024, Google brought back Shazeer and fellow researcher Daniel De Freitas to its DeepMind AI unit. Google's vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models Noam Shazeer announced Wednesday that he was leaving the company to join OpenAI. "I'm excited to share that I'll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there," Shazeer said in a post on X. "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," he added. Shazeer's departure comes less than two years after he returned to Google. In August 2024, Google brought back Shazeer and fellow researcher Daniel...