Google Rehires AI Pioneer Noam Shazeer for $2.7 Billion After Bot Dispute: Report
Google has reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire Noam Shazeer, a former employee and AI pioneer who left the company three years ago after Google refused to release his chatbot project. Shazeer, who originally joined Google as one of its first few hundred employees in 2000, left in 2021 to co-found the AI startup Character.AI…