Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Rehire AI Expert to Co-Lead Gemini: Report
Google has reportedly re-hired its long-time AI researcher, Noam Shazeer, in a $2.7 billion deal to co-lead the company’s AI efforts, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Shazeer, who had worked at Google for 21 years, left the company in 2021 after it declined to launch a chatbot he had developed with…