Noam Shazeer
Definition
An American computer scientist and entrepreneur, primarily recognized as one of the co-authors of the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and a key engineer behind the Transformer architecture.
A prominent, highly valued, and occasionally controversial figure in generative AI, serving as a co-lead for Google's Gemini project and the co-founder of Character.AI.
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Google was so impressed by what Noam Shazeer built at Character.AI that they practically paid a small country's GDP to bring him back into the fold.
Between coding the core of modern AI and sparking internal debates that would make a soap opera writer blush, Noam Shazeer certainly knows how to keep a tech giant on its toes.
If brilliance is measured by the sheer volume of discourse—legal, technical, or otherwise—that one generates, Noam Shazeer is undeniably operating on a different architecture than the rest of us.