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The return of Noam Shazeer to Google marks a major moment in the race to dominate AI. Shazeer was the co-author of the pivotal AI research paper "Attention is All You Need," but he left Google in 2021 after the company refused to release a chatbot he had developed.
He started his own company, Character.AI, which struggled despite its initial promise. Google recently stepped in, paying around $2.7 billion for the right to license Character.AI's technology and rehire Shazeer.
He has rejoined his former colleague Daniel De Freitas to lead research and oversee the development of Gemini, the next iteration of Google's AI platform. Google co-founder Sergey Brin emphasised that the company is now pushing the boundaries of AI deployment faster than ever before.
