Google’s Gemini AI Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Departing for OpenAI

A high-ranking Google executive who helps lead the company’s flagship artificial intelligence program is heading to a competing firm.

Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and one of the co-leads of its Gemini AI models, announced on Wednesday that he will be departing the tech giant to take a position at OpenAI.