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Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark "Attention Is All You Need" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to Google from Character.AI in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal. After Karpathy's move to Anthropic, it's the second major AI hiring shake-up this year. The article Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint appeared first on The Decoder.

Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint
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Published June 18, 2026 · Category: AI Briefing

Overview

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark "Attention Is All You Need" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to Google from Character.AI in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal. After Karpathy's move to Anthropic, it's the second major AI hiring shake-up this year.

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The article Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint appeared first on The Decoder.

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Originally published at the-decoder.com.

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