Noam Shazeer: Difference between revisions

Noam Shazeer joined Google in 2000. One of his first major achievements was improving the spelling corrector of Google' search engine.<ref name="WSJ - Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration">{{Cite Q|Q130363626|access-date=2024-09-25}}</ref> In 2017, Shazeer was one of the lead authors of the seminal paper "[[Attention Is All You Need]]",<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Mia Xu |last2=Firat |first2=Orhan |last3=Bapna |first3=Ankur |last4=Johnson |first4=Melvin |last5=Macherey |first5=Wolfgang |last6=Foster |first6=George |last7=Jones |first7=Llion |last8=Schuster |first8=Mike |last9=Shazeer |first9=Noam |last10=Parmar |first10=Niki |last11=Vaswani |first11=Ashish |last12=Uszkoreit |first12=Jakob |last13=Kaiser |first13=Lukasz |last14=Chen |first14=Zhifeng |last15=Wu |first15=Yonghui |date=2018 |title=The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/p18-1008 |journal=Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) |pages=76–86 |location=Stroudsburg, PA, USA |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics |doi=10.18653/v1/p18-1008|arxiv=1804.09849 }}</ref><ref name="Attention Is All You Need">{{Cite Q|Q30249683|access-date=2024-09-25}}</ref><ref name="WSJ - Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration" /> which introduced the [[Transformer (deep learning architecture)|transformer architecture]].

 

 

In August 2024, it was reported that Shazeer would be returning to Google to co-lead the [[Gemini (chatbot)|Gemini]] AI project.<ref name="reuters August 22, 2024">{{cite web |last1=Cai |first1=Kenrick |title=Google appoints former Character.AI founder as co-lead of its AI models |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-appoints-former-characterai-founder-co-lead-its-ai-models-2024-08-23/ |website=reuters |date=August 22, 2024}}</ref> Shazeer was appointed as technical lead on Gemini, along with [[Jeff Dean]] and [[Oriol Vinyals]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-27 |title=Noam Shazeer returns to Google to co-lead Gemini AI project |url=https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rksxmxsj0 |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=ctech |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829110640/https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rksxmxsj0 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was part of a $2.7 billion deal for Google to license Character's technology.<ref name="WSJ - Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration" /><ref name="NYT">{{Cite Q|Q130365833|access-date=2024-09-25}}</ref>

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