Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer departs for OpenAI
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Lee Ying Shan, Jennifer Elias
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Noam Shazeer, Google's vice president of engineering and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, has left Google to join OpenAI. His departure comes less than two years after returning to Google in August 2024. Shazeer expressed excitement about joining OpenAI while acknowledging it was a difficult decision to leave Google, where he praised the team and their collective work.
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· 3 pulledI'm excited to share that I'll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.
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.
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