datasciencestopdatasciencestop.comยทSep 30, 2024Noam Shazeer back at Google in $ 2.7-billion deal: Who he is, what his rehiring says about AI sectorWho is Noam Shazeer? Shazeer, a 48-year-old software engineer and one of Google's early hires in 2000 left the company in 2021 when Google declined to release the chatbot he built with colleague Daniel De Freitas. Together, they founded Character.AI,...GoogleAdd a thoughtful commentNo comments yetBe the first to start the conversation.