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Noam Shazeer

Co-founder of Character.AI and Transformer researcher at Google DeepMind at google-deepmind

Co-author of the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. Founded Character.AI in 2021 after leaving Google, and returned to Google in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion licensing deal to lead the Gemini AI project.