Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday.
A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app
Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI's fastest-growing businesses. Now he's overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.
Sources: Google, Anthropic, and Meta have hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy in recent months as they expand machine consciousness research
Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal
Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon's Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’
Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as its chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs
Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and 30+ employees from OpenAI and Google file an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its legal fight with the US DOD
Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD
Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.
Sources: Mustafa Suleyman has been calling Google DeepMind recruits to pitch Microsoft AI, offering far higher pay packages and more freedom to do their work
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Sources: Meta has poached Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, for its “superintelligence” team, and an ML lead from AI voice startup Sesame AI
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