Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and Gemini co-lead, leaves Alphabet for OpenAI less than two years after a $2.7 billion return deal.

Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that,…

In 2024, Google paid $2.7 billion to bring Noam Shazeer back. Shazeer invented the transformer...