Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI

Surprised to not see more comments on this, especially given the popularity of the Anthropic/Karpathy article. What a win for OpenAI - and what a loss for Google, just 2 years after paying $2.7bn to bring Noam back into the fold. Does not bode well for Gemini long-term... Or could be a signal for how deeply they are leaning into world models.

Wow - Google paid a couple billion dollars to bring Noam back. Really impressive by OAI if this reporting is accurate!