Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Quits Google, Joins OpenAI Before IPO

Jun 19, 2026 - 08:45
Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Quits Google, Joins OpenAI Before IPO
Noam Shazeer, Google’s vice president of engineering and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced on June 18 that he is leaving the company to join OpenAI. The departure lands less than two years after Google paid a reported $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer back from Character.AI, the startup he co-founded after leaving Google in...

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