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Google’s $2.7 Billion Move to Re-Hire AI Genius Draws Attention

BIG INVESTMENT

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.

Palo Alto: View of the Google headquarters during the visit of North Rhine-Westphalia's Minister President Wüst.
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