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
editNoam 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.