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Oct 10, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Google Rehires AI Pioneer Noam Shazeer for Gemini Development

Google has signed a $2.7 billion agreement to rehire AI pioneer Noam Shazeer—co‑author of the seminal “Attention is All You Need” paper and creator of the Meena chatbot—bringing him back from his Character.AI venture to serve as vice president overseeing the Gemini generative‑AI project alongside DeepMind leaders, thereby bolstering Google’s competitive edge in the field.