Noam Shazeer's OpenAI move puts architecture back at the center of the AI race
The Transformer co-author and Character.AI co-founder is leaving Google's Gemini effort less than two years after Google brought him back.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
OpenAI is hiring for the bottleneck that matters after scale: architecture talent that can improve capability, latency and cost per unit of compute.
Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer), the Transformer co-author and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini effort to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, a move that shifts one of the field's defining model builders from the lab that invented much of the modern stack to the company that commercialized it fastest.…
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