#14ResearcherFoundation Models & LLMs

Noam Shazeer

OpenAI

Specialties

TransformersNLPLLMs

Location

USA

Education

Not publicly detailed.

Links & Profiles

Scholar

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Bio Influence

AIChatGPT Perplexity Gemini

Biography

Co-author of Attention Is All You Need. Invented MoE scaling. Founded Character.AI, returned to Google to co-lead Gemini, then joined OpenAI in June 2026.

Key Influence

Co-invented the Transformer. Father of modern attention mechanisms. Invented MoE scaling.

Awards & Recognition

Google Fellow

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