Google appoints former Character.AI founder co-responsible for its artificial intelligence models
Shazeer joined Google in 2000, two years after its inception, and co-authored a seminal 2017 research paper that catalysed the current AI boom
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Google has appointed Noam Shazeer, former head of the start-up Character.AI and before that a long-time Google researcher, as co-head of its main artificial intelligence project. In a memo to staff, the company explained that Shazeer will be the technical head of Gemini and will join other co-leaders Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals. Gemini is the line of artificial intelligence models developed by DeepMind, Google's AI division, and integrated into products such as Search and the Pixel smartphones.
Shazeer recently rejoined Google from the chatbot maker he founded in 2021; the US tech giant shelled out billions to bring him and a handful of other employees into DeepMind and to enter into a licensing agreement with Character.AI.
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"We are thrilled to be joining the best team in the world that is building the most valuable technology on the planet," Shazeer wrote in an e-mail response to the note, which was viewed by Reuters news agency.
The note was first reported by The Information.
Shazeer joined Google in 2000, two years after its inception, and co-authored a seminal 2017 research paper that catalysed the current AI boom.
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