@markchen90: Very excited to welcome @NoamShazeer to OpenAI as our new lead for architecture research! His work on transformers, MoE…

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Noam Shazeer, a key researcher behind transformers and MoE, is joining OpenAI as head of architecture research, moving from Google.

Very excited to welcome @NoamShazeer to OpenAI as our new lead for architecture research! His work on transformers, MoE, and efficient decoding have shaped modern AI. He’s extremely AGI-pilled and is super thoughtful about making it all go well. Welcome, Noam!
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Very excited to welcome @NoamShazeer to OpenAI as our new lead for architecture research! His work on transformers, MoE, and efficient decoding have shaped modern AI.

He’s extremely AGI-pilled and is super thoughtful about making it all go well. Welcome, Noam!

Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer): I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.

It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to

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