Noam Shazeer is back at Google, and this time he’s aiming for AGI

Under Shazeer’s watch, Google is in a strong position to emerge as the leader in large frontier models.

Noam Shazeer, one of the inventors of the transformer models that caused the current AI boom, is now leading the charge at Google toward artificial general intelligence (that is, AI that’s generally smarter than human beings). Initially, Google was less aggressive than its peers when it came to and releasing generative AI to the world. But the company finally appears to have caught up, and that its Gemini models are at the very front of the cutting edge in large language models.