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Noam Shazeer

🇺🇸 American

Shazeer helped create the Transformer, the design behind modern language models. He also pioneered systems that activate only the parts of a model needed for each task, making very large models practical. He founded Character.AI and joined OpenAI in 2026 after returning to Google to co-lead Gemini.

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Background

Current role

Role not listed

Previously

Until 2026VP Engineering, Gemini co-lead,

Google DeepMind

Education

Duke University

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Last editorial review: September 5, 2026

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moveNoam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google

Shazeer is leaving Google, where he was a VP of engineering and Gemini co-lead, to join OpenAI.

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