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Noam Shazeer officially joins OpenAI: The father of Transformers leaves Google for the second time

Core author of the Transformer paper, Noam Shazeer, has announced his move to OpenAI. Google previously spent $2.7 billion to secure a licensing agreement with Character.AI to bring him back, but less than two years later, this 'wizard' level researcher is on the move again.

It’s reported that after expressing interest, both OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI entered the competition for his talents. Altman stated that Shazeer is one of the people he most wants to collaborate with. With this, all eight authors of the Transformer paper have now left Google, with two landing at OpenAI.

Why it matters: This is one of the most iconic events in the AI talent acquisition race since the GPT series, and Shazeer's addition will significantly boost OpenAI's R&D capabilities in infrastructure and next-gen models.

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Transformer pioneer Noam Shazeer is leaving Google again, officially joining OpenAI

OpenAI announced to its staff this Wednesday that after joining, Shazeer will focus on finding a brand new foundational architecture for large models and driving the evolution of the Transformer architecture. Shazeer is one of the co-authors of Google's groundbreaking 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" and was the tech lead for Google's Gemini model. He has previously joined and left Google twice, most recently returning from Character.AI to Google, and now he's making another exit to join OpenAI.

Why it matters: The departure of a pioneer of the Transformer architecture signifies an escalation in the competition for top talent in the AI industry, and it hints at a potential fundamental shift in the foundational architecture of the next generation of large models.

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