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A Google veteran who founded Character.AI is jumping to OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, a Google veteran and founder of Character.AI, is leaving Google to join OpenAI. His move reflects intensifying competition for AI talent among major tech companies. Shazeer was a key contributor to Google's early large language model development and co-led the Gemini project.
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