Noam Shazeer moves from Google to OpenAI

💼 Noam Shazeer moves from Google to OpenAI

Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering at Google and one of the leads on the Gemini project, is moving to OpenAI. Shazeer is a co-author of the paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer architecture.

🌍 The move of a key Transformer developer from Google to OpenAI strengthens OpenAI's technological advantage and weakens Google's position in the race for LLM leadership.

👤 This event highlights the intense competition for AI talent. The departure of a creator of fundamental technologies could impact the development pace of both Gemini and GPT models.

Source 1: https://9to5google.com/2026/06/17/geminis-co-lead-is-leaving-google-to-join-openai/ Source 2: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-for-openai.html