Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI(twitter.com)
350 points by lukasgross 46 days ago | 377 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Background context on Shazeer's foundational work on the transformer architecture
  • Recap of Shazeer's career trajectory between Google, Character.AI, and now OpenAI
  • ~Speculation that financial incentives like pre-IPO stock motivated the move
  • ~Speculation that Gemini's underperformance led to his departure
  • This is a major win for OpenAI and a significant blow to Google's Gemini efforts