Noam Shazeer
OpenAI (joined from Google, June 2026) · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need' and Character.AI co-founder; left his role as Gemini co-lead at Google for OpenAI in June 2026.
Role changes
- 2026-06-18 Left Google, where he co-led Gemini, to join OpenAI source
News mentioning Noam Shazeer (2)
- Demis Hassabis steps aside as Google DeepMind CEO; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over, Jeff Dean leaves ★★★★
In early August 2026 Demis Hassabis handed day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu (as SVP reporting to Sundar Pichai), becoming DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. Pichai's memo also announced Jeff Dean's departure to found…
- FT: Google DeepMind has broken up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team; Jumper, Adler and Pritzel now at Anthropic ★★★
The Financial Times reported on 29 July 2026 that Google DeepMind had quietly dissolved the dedicated AlphaFold team, reassigning most of the original AlphaFold authors to Gemini and other projects. Nobel laureate John Jumper had announced on 19 June 2026 that he was leaving for Anthropic, and…
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