{"id":1015302,"date":"2026-06-18T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015302"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:31:04","slug":"google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-to-join-ipo-bound-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-to-join-ipo-bound-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini artificial intelligence models, said on Wednesday that he will leave the company to join IPO-bound ChatGPT maker OpenAI. <\/p>\n<p>Shazeer&#8217;s move \u200ccomes as \u2060leading AI \u2060firms compete for talent while racing to develop \u200badvanced models. <\/p>\n<p>The surprise departure comes less than two years \u200bafter Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer, the former head of startup Character. AI, back to \u200bthe company along with a \u2060team of \u200chis researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini artificial intelligence models, said on Wednesday that he will leave the company to join IPO-bound ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Shazeer&#8217;s move \u200ccomes as \u2060leading AI \u2060firms compete for talent while racing to develop \u200badvanced models. The surprise departure comes less than two years \u200bafter Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer, the former head of startup Character. AI, back to \u200bthe company along with a \u2060team of \u200chis researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015323,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015302\/revisions\/1015323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}