Google's $2.7 billion agreement with Character.AI primarily aimed to rehire former employee Noam Shazeer, a major contributor to modern AI innovations.
After being sidelined by Google in 2021, Noam Shazeer founded Character.AI, which recently received over $150 million funding, valuing the startup at $1 billion.
Shazeer's influential 2017 paper, 'Attention is All You Need', led to his prominence in AI, with over 100,000 citations, shaping the field of large language models.
The financial deal reportedly made Shazeer hundreds of millions, illustrating Google's desire to regain expertise pivotal to its AI advancements.
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