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OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things

OpenAI has brought on Noam Shazeer. He previously served as a co-lead for Google Gemini and cofounded Character.AI. Shazeer had returned to Google in a deal worth $2.7 billion.

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  1. OpenAI Hires Former Google and Character.AI Executive Noam Shazeer

    OpenAI has brought on Noam Shazeer. He previously served as a co-lead for Google Gemini and cofounded Character.AI. Shazeer had returned to Google in a deal worth $2.7 billion.

    What's confirmed:

    • OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer.
    • Shazeer cofounded Character.AI and was a co-lead of Google Gemini.
    • Shazeer previously returned to Google in a deal valued at $2.7 billion.
    confidence 100%

  2. OpenAI Hires Former Google and Character.AI Lead Noam Shazeer

    OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, a co-lead of Google Gemini and cofounder of Character.AI. Shazeer previously returned to Google in a deal valued at $2.7 billion. OpenAI also hired Dean Ball, a former Trump AI official.

    What's confirmed:

    • Noam Shazeer, a Google Gemini co-lead, is joining OpenAI.
    • Noam Shazeer cofounded the AI startup Character.AI.
    • Noam Shazeer returned to Google two years ago in a $2.7 billion deal.
    • OpenAI hired former Trump AI official and scholar Dean Ball.

    Still unconfirmed:

    • Character.AI is linked to a spate of minor suicides.
    • OpenAI is currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits.
    • OpenAI is IPO-bound.
    confidence 90%