OpenAI confirmed Shazeer’s role and remit making him responsible for the physical neural network design underlying all future OpenAI models starting immediately.
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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.