{"id":861377,"date":"2024-09-30T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=861377"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T02:32:20","slug":"google-rehires-character-ai-co-founder-noam-shazeer-in-2-7-billion-deal-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/30\/google-rehires-character-ai-co-founder-noam-shazeer-in-2-7-billion-deal-know-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rehires Character.AI co-founder Noam Shazeer in $2.7 billion deal \u2013 Know why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reappointed Noam Shazeer, a leading figure in artificial intelligence, renowned for developing the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). <\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet Inc., reportedly paid billions to secure Shazeer\u2019s return for an ambitious new project. However, this isn\u2019t Shazeer\u2019s first time with the tech giant\u2014he left Google in October 2021 to co-found Character.AI, a chatbot startup that gained significant backing, including from venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reappointed Noam Shazeer, a leading figure in artificial intelligence, renowned for developing the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet Inc., reportedly paid billions to secure Shazeer\u2019s return for an ambitious new project. However, this isn\u2019t Shazeer\u2019s first time with the tech giant\u2014he left Google in October 2021 to co-found Character.AI, a chatbot startup that gained significant backing, including from venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861377","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=861377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}