Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI

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Noam Shazeer, Google's vice president of engineering and co-lead of Gemini, announced he is leaving to join OpenAI. Shazeer returned to Google in August 2024 after co-founding Character.AI, which Google partnered with. His departure underscores the intense competition for AI talent, with OpenAI recently filing for an IPO.

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