A prominent Google researcher is leaving for OpenAI, continuing a talent migration trend that has seen over 20 researchers depart major AI labs since 2023.

Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday. Shazeer left Google in 2021 to…

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the transformer paper and co-lead of Google's Gemini, is reportedly joining OpenAI in a major AI talent war escalation.

Noam Shazeer of Google is set to jump ship and take up a position with artificial intelligence rival OpenAI.