OpenAI reportedly poached Shazeer in June 2026, a jump he confirmed publicly; days later Alphabet lost $250 billion in a day on his and John Jumper’s defections.
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Noam Shazeer, AI researcher at OpenAI
The move the corpus records in June 2026, when OpenAI reportedly poached him two years after Google's $2.7 billion reacquisition.
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