Noam Shazeer
Noam Shazeer (born 1975 or 1976[1]) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and deep learning, particularly in the development of transformer models and natural language processing.
Career
[edit]Noam Shazeer joined Google in 2000. One of his first major achievements was improving the spelling corrector of Google' search engine.[1] In 2017, Shazeer was one of the lead authors of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need",[2][3][1] which introduced the transformer architecture.
At Google, Shazeer and his colleague Daniel De Freitas built a chatbot named Meena.[1] Following the refusal of Google to release the chatbot to the public, Shazeer and De Freitas left the company in 2021 to found Character.AI.[1][4]
In August 2024, it was reported that Shazeer would be returning to Google to co-lead the Gemini AI project.[5] Shazeer was appointed as technical lead on Gemini, along with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals.[6] It was part of a $2.7 billion deal for Google to license Character's technology.[1][7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Miles Kruppa; Lauren Thomas (25 September 2024). "Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Wikidata Q130363626. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ Chen, Mia Xu; Firat, Orhan; Bapna, Ankur; Johnson, Melvin; Macherey, Wolfgang; Foster, George; Jones, Llion; Schuster, Mike; Shazeer, Noam; Parmar, Niki; Vaswani, Ashish; Uszkoreit, Jakob; Kaiser, Lukasz; Chen, Zhifeng; Wu, Yonghui (2018). "The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation". Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics: 76–86. arXiv:1804.09849. doi:10.18653/v1/p18-1008.
- ^ Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Łukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin (12 June 2017). "Attention is All you Need" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems: 15. arXiv:1706.03762. Wikidata Q30249683. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "Google takes another startup out of the AI race". The Verge. 2024-08-02.[dead link]
- ^ Cai, Kenrick (August 22, 2024). "Google appoints former Character.AI founder as co-lead of its AI models". reuters.
- ^ "Noam Shazeer returns to Google to co-lead Gemini AI project". ctech. 2024-08-27. Archived from the original on 2024-08-29. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Erin Griffith; Cade Metz (8 August 2024). "The New A.I. Deal: Buy Everything but the Company". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Wikidata Q130365833. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
