Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic, marking a historic AI talent exodus from Google DeepMind.

OpenAI is bringing on Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy adviser Dean Ball as it prepares for its public market debut.

Noam Shazeer, Google Gemini co-lead and transformer co-inventor, is leaving Google to join IPO-bound OpenAI less than two years after a reported $2.7B rehire.