Noam Shazeer - co-author of the Transformer, T5, and Switch Transformer papers, and one of the pioneers of sparse MoE models - is leaving his VP Engineering / Gemini co-lead role at Google DeepMind to join OpenAI This is likely the most significant AI talent move of the year.
Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI.
He leaves Google DeepMind for OpenAI, a significant talent move.