{"id":972974,"date":"2025-11-10T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972974"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:54:25","slug":"man-goes-to-japan-for-google-project-leaves-10-year-old-job-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/man-goes-to-japan-for-google-project-leaves-10-year-old-job-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Man goes to Japan for Google project, leaves 10-year-old job to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google engineer has revealed why he walked away from a decade-long career at one of the world\u2019s biggest tech companies to start over in Japan. In an as-told-to essay published by Business Insider, Jad Tarifi, now founder and CEO of robotics-focused AI startup Integral AI, said he left Google to pursue a vision that no longer fit inside the company\u2019s advertising-driven priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Tarifi joined Google in 2012 after completing a PhD in AI at the University of Florida. Over nearly ten years at the company, he witnessed major breakthroughs, including the rise of transformer models. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google engineer has revealed why he walked away from a decade-long career at one of the world\u2019s biggest tech companies to start over in Japan. In an as-told-to essay published by Business Insider, Jad Tarifi, now founder and CEO of robotics-focused AI startup Integral AI, said he left Google to pursue a vision that no longer fit inside the company\u2019s advertising-driven priorities. Tarifi joined Google in 2012 after completing a PhD in AI at the University of Florida. Over nearly ten years at the company, he witnessed major breakthroughs, including the rise of transformer models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972974","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}