Research leaders
Noam Shazeer
Co-author of the Transformer; co-founded Character.AI.
b. 1976🇺🇸United StatesCo-lead, Gemini, Google DeepMind
A co-author on 'Attention Is All You Need' and the driving force behind mixture-of-experts scaling, he left Google for Character.AI and returned in 2024.
Known for
TransformerMixture-of-ExpertsCharacter.AI
3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2024–now2 yrsGoogle DeepMindCo-lead, Gemini
- 2021–20243 yrsCharacter.AICo-founder & CEO
- 2000–202121 yrsGooglePrincipal Engineer
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
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