@ns123abc: “Sir… Noam Shazeer, the legend who invented the Transformer… who Sundar paid $2.7 billion to bring back and led Gemini……

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Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the Transformer architecture and key figure behind Gemini, is leaving Google to join OpenAI, marking his second departure from Google after being brought back in a $2.7 billion deal.

“Sir… Noam Shazeer, the legend who invented the Transformer… who Sundar paid $2.7 billion to bring back and led Gemini… sir… it hasn’t even been two years and announced he’s leaving Google AGAIN…” https://t.co/YJELJyFUuU
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“Sir… Noam Shazeer, the legend who invented the Transformer… who Sundar paid $2.7 billion to bring back and led Gemini… sir… it hasn’t even been two years and announced he’s leaving Google AGAIN…” https://t.co/YJELJyFUuU

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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