The departure of the Transformer co-author after almost three decades at Google represents the most consequential talent loss for any AI lab in the decade.
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Noam Shazeer Co-Author of the Transformer Paper Joins OpenAI as Architecture Research Lead
The legendary AI researcher who co-authored the foundational Attention Is All You Need paper left Google DeepMind to lead architecture research at OpenAI.
Noam Shazeer Co-Author of Transformer Architecture Joins OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research
The researcher’s departure from Google DeepMind after less than 22 months of a $2.7B buyback deal is seen as a pivotal move for AI model development.
Noam Shazeer, Co-Author of ‘Attention Is All You Need’, Joins OpenAI as Architecture Lead
The Transformer co-inventor leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI is the biggest individual talent move in AI history since Andrej Karpathy’s move.
What Noam Shazeer Leaving Google for OpenAI Really Means
The Transformer architect’s surprise move to OpenAI could reshape future model architectures and signals rising pressure on Google DeepMind.
Noam Shazeer Named Lead for Architecture Research at OpenAI After Record-Setting Google Exit Deal
OpenAI confirmed Shazeer’s role and remit making him responsible for the physical neural network design underlying all future OpenAI models starting immediately.
Sam Altman Says Noam Shazeer Hire Is One He Wanted Since the Very Beginning of OpenAI
The CEO expressed enthusiasm for the hire in public statements calling Shazeer’s foundational AI research work transformative and central to OpenAI’s architectural direction.
Noam Shazeer Co-Author of ‘Attention Is All You Need’ Leaves Google DeepMind to Join OpenAI
The researcher behind the foundational 2017 Transformer paper left Google 22 months after returning from Character.AI and was hired by Sam Altman as OpenAI’s Lead for Architecture Research.
Noam Shazeer Departure from Google: Alphabet Shares Close Up 1.17% Suggesting Confidence
Despite losing the co-author of the foundational Transformer paper investors appeared to believe Google’s $422 billion revenue base is more than any single hire.