When Noam Shazeer is thinking, he puts his face in his hands, and goes somewhere else. Not literally, of course. He’s still across from me, in a Character.AI conference room that will later host ...

When Karandeep Anand’s 5-year-old daughter gets home from school, they fire up the artificial intelligence chatbot platform ...

Noam Shazeer, the co-author of a key research paper that sparked the AI boom, first joined Google in 2000 as one of the company’s first few hundred employees, but quit in 2021.

In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed chatbot startup.

Alphabet Inc's Google rehires AI pioneer Noam Shazeer, who left in 2021 due to a dispute over a chatbot. Google reportedly paid $2.7B to license his tech and bring him back to lead AI efforts.

AI Noam is polite, guarded, and informational to the point of blandness. When I ask why Shazeer founded this company, it says, “I left Google to follow the spirit of entrepreneurship, and to ...

Google paid an eye-popping $2.7 billion for a deal that brought 48-year-old Character.ai founder Noam Shazeer back into the fold, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal.. Now ...

Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer, a former Googler who worked in AI, spoke to the "No Priors" podcast. He said Google was afraid to launch a chatbot, fearing consequences of it saying something wrong.

Noam Shazeer, one of the inventors of the transformer models that caused the current AI boom, is now leading the charge at Google toward artificial general intelligence (that is, AI that’s ...

Noam Shazeer agreed to return to Google after the company paid $2.7 billion to license the technology of his startup Character.AI. The Washington Post via Getty Images.

When Noam Shazeer is thinking, he puts his face in his hands, and goes somewhere else. Not literally, of course. He’s still across from me, in a Character.AI conference room that will later host ...

This week, Noam Shazeer’s Character.AI has been in the news, as The Information reported that Elon Musk’s xAI is looking at a possible acquisition of the company. Fortune sat down with Shazeer ...