The Man Who Invented the Transformer Just Joined OpenAI. Google Paid $2.7B to Keep Him. It Lasted 22 Months.

Noam Shazeer — co-inventor of the architecture underlying every AI model that exists — just left Google DeepMind for OpenAI after less than two years. We cover the talent war implications, Sensor Tower's confirmation that ChatGPT fell below 50% market share for the first time, China's $295 billion government AI plan as a Fable 5 response, and OpenAI's acquisition of Python's dominant developer tools.

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