Noam Shazeer Explained

Noam Shazeer (born) 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

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] which introduced the transformer architecture.

At Google, Shazeer and his colleague Daniel de Freitas built a chatbot named Meena. Following the refusal of Google to release the chatbot to the public, Shazeer and Freitas left the company in 2021 to found Character.AI.[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.[7]

Notes and References

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  2. 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) . 76–86 . Stroudsburg, PA, USA . Association for Computational Linguistics . 10.18653/v1/p18-1008. 1804.09849 .
  3. 2024-09-25.
  4. Web site: 2024-08-02 . Google takes another startup out of the AI race . The Verge.
  5. Web site: Cai . Kenrick . Google appoints former Character.AI founder as co-lead of its AI models . reuters . August 22, 2024.
  6. Web site: 2024-08-27 . Noam Shazeer returns to Google to co-lead Gemini AI project . 2024-08-31 . ctech . en . 2024-08-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240829110640/https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rksxmxsj0 . live .
  7. 2024-09-25.

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