Noam Shazeer (born 1975 or 1976[1]) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and deep learning, particularly in the development of transformer models and natural language processing.
[1] In 2017, Shazeer was one of the lead authors of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need",[2][3][1] which introduced the transformer architecture.
At Google, Shazeer and his colleague Daniel de Freitas built a chatbot named Meena.
[1] Following the refusal of Google to release the chatbot to the public, Shazeer and Freitas left the company in 2021 to found Character.AI.
[5] Shazeer was appointed as technical lead on Gemini, along with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals.