Thursday, 18 June, 2026
OpenAI Poaches Google’s $2.7 Billion AI Guru Noam Shazeer
By TechShots Studio
Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer has left the company to join rival OpenAI. Shazeer, a co-author of the landmark 2017 Transformer paper, was rehired by Google in 2024 through a massive $2.7 billion deal with his startup, Character.AI. He described the jump to OpenAI as a "difficult decision," marking a monumental shift in the tech industry’s ongoing AI talent war.
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