Google has reportedly spent $2.7 billion to bring back Noam Shazeer, a key figure in artificial intelligence who he left the company to start his own venture. Shazeer, 48, first joined Google in ...

48-year-old Noam Shazeer, a co-founder of Character.AI, has recently made headlines after a teenager died by suicide after reportedly being obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI. The teen's ...

As outlined in the lawsuit, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI last year, interacting with chatbots modeled after characters from The Game of Thrones, includin ...

The lawsuit accuses Character.ai, its co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google LLC, of designing "their product with dark patterns and deployed a powerful LLM to manipulate ...

Character.AI's founders are Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, two ex-Googlers who departed the Silicon Valley giant back in 2021, and have since chalked their exit up to — get this — too ...

As part of the deal, Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas will return to Google, according to a Friday blog post by the Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup. Shazeer ...

Google recruited Noam Shazeer in a funding and licensing deal. Google has named Noam Shazeer, the Character.AI CEO and co-founder recruited in a funding deal with the startup, as a technical lead ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google has appointed Noam Shazeer, the former head of startup Character.AI and before that a long-time Google researcher, to co-lead its main AI project. Shazeer will serve as a ...

Google paid an eye-popping $2.7 billion for a deal that brought 48-year-old Character.ai founder Noam Shazeer back into the fold, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal.

Google hesitated for years to release a chatbot out of fear of the repercussions should it say something wrong, according to Noam Shazeer, a former Google Brain engineer and a key figure in the ...