Noam Shazeer

Noam Shazeer (born )

He went on to study math and computer science at Duke University and, as part of the Duke math team, won prizes in the Putnam Competition. He started studying in a graduate program in Berkeley but soon left to be one of Google's first employees. His sister was ordained as a rabbi by Hebrew College. In 2017, Shazeer was one of the authors of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need",

In September 2023, Time Magazine chose Shazeer as one of the 100 most influential people in the AI world.

In August 2024, it was reported that Shazeer would be returning to Google to co-lead the Gemini AI project. Shazeer was appointed as technical lead on Gemini, along with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals. It was part of a $2.7 billion deal for Google to license Character's technology. Since he owns 30-40% of the company, it is estimated he netted $750 million–$1 billion.

In June 2026, Shazeer announced that he would leave Google to join OpenAI. At the time, he was a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini artificial intelligence models.

Views Shazeer said about artificial general intelligence that he doesn't "particularly care about AGI in the sense of wanting something that can do absolutely everything a person can do”.

Shazeer has opined on gender-reassignment surgery for children: "I do not believe that G-d puts people in the wrong bodies. I do not believe that it is okay to sterilize children."