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.

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

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.