June 18, 2026

Google’s Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI

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Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. The man widely credited as a principal architect of Google’s Gemini models and a co-author of the 2017 transformer paper that underpins virtually every modern large language model announced the move himself,...