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Noam ShazeerNoam Shazeer

Noam Shazeer

VP Engineering, Gemini Co-lead / Google DeepMind

Noam Shazeer is a legendary AI scientist and engineer, widely recognized as a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and the original inventor of key components of the Transformer architecture. He is currently the VP Engineering and Gemini Co-lead at Google DeepMind, having recently returned to Google after the company acquired his startup, Character.AI, which he co-founded and served as CEO. His inventions also include Sparsely-gated Mixture of Experts and Mesh-Tensorflow, making him a pivotal figure in the large language model revolution.

Bachelor's, Duke University
United States
TwitterTwitter27.3K
LinkedInLinkedIn23.1K
EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceTechnology
$2.7 Billion
Acquisition Value
23.1K
LinkedIn Followers
27.3K
Twitter Followers
4+ (Transformer, MoE, T5)
Key Inventions
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Work Experience

GoogleGoogle
Google

VP Engineering, Gemini Co-lead

Aug 2024 - Present
Position
VP Engineering, Gemini Co-lead
C
Character.AI

Chief Executive Officer

Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
Position
Chief Executive Officer
GoogleGoogle
Google

Principal Software Engineer

Jul 2012 - Oct 2021
Position
Principal Software Engineer
GoogleGoogle
Google

Software Engineer

Dec 2000 - 2009
Position
Software Engineer

Education

Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University
1994 - 1998
Education
N/A

Key Contributions & Roles

Transformer Inventor

Co-inventor of the Transformer architecture, the foundation of modern LLMs.

Character.AI Co-founder

Co-founder and former CEO of Character.AI, valued at $2.7B upon Google reacquisition.

Gemini Co-lead

VP Engineering and Co-lead of the Gemini AI project at Google DeepMind.

AI Pioneer

Inventor of Sparsely-gated Mixture of Experts (MoE) and Mesh-Tensorflow.

Professional Overview

Noam Shazeer is a pivotal figure in the AI revolution, known for inventing core technologies that power large language models, including the Transformer architecture and Mixture of Experts. He recently returned to Google to co-lead the Gemini project after his startup, Character.AI, was reacquired in a deal valued at $2.7 billion.

Core AI Inventions
Transformer ArchitectureSparsely-gated Mixture of Experts (MoE)Mesh-TensorflowT5 ModelLaMDA Dialog System
Key Organizations
Google DeepMindCharacter.AIGoogle SearchAI ResearchEngineering Leadership

Platform Stats & Key Roles

Twitter Followers

27.3K

Key Role

AI Pioneer

Key Achievement

Transformer Inventor

Current Role

Character.AI Founder

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