person
Noam Shazeer
Character.AI co-founder; Transformer paper co-author
Co-author of the 2017 Transformer paper. Co-founded Character.AI, then returned to Google in 2024 as part of a $2.7B reverse-acquihire. Public face of frontier model development inside Google.
current Tech Lead, Gemini, Google DeepMind
past Co-founder and former CEO, Character.AI
Strategy positions
Techno-optimismendorsestentative
Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates themBuilder-side voice. Argues frontier model improvement is structurally driven by aggressive engineering more than by safety theory.
“Attention is all you need.”
Context: Title of the original Transformer paper, co-authored.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.