Noam Shazeer
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Transformer co-author, MoE pioneer — bought back by Google for $2.7B.
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Shazeer co-wrote the transformer paper and pioneered mixture-of-experts, left Google to found Character.AI, and returned in 2024 in a $2.7B licensing deal to co-lead Gemini — the clearest price ever put on one researcher's head.
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