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Google Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Announces Departure and Joins OpenAI
June 18, 2026
CoinFeed News
CoinFeed June 18 news, Google Engineering Vice President and Gemini AI model co-lead Noam Shazeer announced his departure and joined OpenAI. Shazeer posted on X: "I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the amazing team there. Leaving Google was a tough decision. I'm incredibly proud of everything we built together at Google."