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Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer departs for OpenAI
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Google's vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models Noam Shazeer announced Wednesday that he was leaving the company to join OpenAI.
Key facts
- The departure also comes weeks after Google unveiled new AI products, including its Gemini 3.5 Flash model and Gemini Spark AI agent, at its annual the reporter/O developer conference
- Google's vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models Noam Shazeer announced Wednesday that he was leaving the company to join OpenAI
- The latest move underscores the intense battle for top AI talent, which has become a key front in competition among technology companies
- CNBC's Jennifer Elias contributed to this report
Summary
"I'm excited to share that I'll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there," Shazeer said in a post on X. "It was a difficult decision to move on. Shazeer's departure comes less than two years after he returned to Google. The two had left Google after it declined to aggressively pursue a chatbot project they had championed.