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Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI

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Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI

Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of Character.AI is leaving Google to join OpenAI in the latest AI talent war move.

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Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of Character.AI is leaving Google to join OpenAI in the latest AI talent war move.

Google's vice president of engineering and a co-leader of its Gemini AI models announced Wednesday he is leaving the company to join OpenAI. Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of Character.AI is leaving Google to join OpenAI in the latest AI talent war move.

CNBC reported the story as "Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI." Business Insider reported the story as "A Google veteran who founded Character.AI is jumping to OpenAI."

2 sources have covered this story, including CNBC and Business Insider. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 14 hours ago.

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