Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI

The "Attention Is All You Need" co-author and Gemini co-lead — whom Google paid ~$2.7B in 2024 to bring back from Character.AI — joins OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research. The second foundational-caliber defection of the month.

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