Google AI leader Noam Shazeer leaves company for OpenAI

The AI talent wars are raging on.  Two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to poach leading AI researcher Noam Shazeer and part of his team at Character.AI, Shazeer is leaving the company to join OpenAI.  Shazeer worked at Google as the vice president of engineering and co-lead of Gemini, where he was credited for helping close the gap between Gemini and ChatGPT’s capabilities. “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional...