[Gemini Head Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI After Less Than Two Years Back at Google] According to a report by Jinse Finance, on June 22, Google Vice President of Engineering and co-lead of the AI model Gemini, Noam Shazeer, announced his resignation this week and confirmed that he will be joining competitor OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. Google subsequently issued a statement expressing deep gratitude for Noam Shazeer's significant contributions to the company over the years and wishing him all the best. In his 50s, Noam Shazeer is a heavyweight pioneer in the AI field. He first joined Google in 2000, with his most notable achievement being the co-authorship of the groundbreaking 2017 paper *Attention Is All You Need* with his colleagues, which introduced the Transformer architecture. This technology revolutionized the development of natural language processing (NLP) and became the foundational core of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini. It is also regarded as the starting point of the current generative AI boom. After leaving Google in 2021, he co-founded the AI chatbot startup Character.AI. By August 2024, Google, through a technology licensing agreement with Character.AI, spent up to $2.7 billion to bring Noam Shazeer and his research team back into its AI division, DeepMind.