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Noam Shazeer and Character.AI
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- 0:00Google refused to launch it, so [music]
- 0:01he quit. Built it anyway. This is Noam
- 0:03Shazeer, 2017, Google Brain. He co-wrote
- 0:06eight pages that created modern AI,
- 0:08Attention Is All You Need. Eight pages,
- 0:11[music] eight authors. Every chatbot
- 0:12you've used runs on that idea. By 2021,
- 0:15he had one working inside Google. Google
- 0:18wouldn't ship it, too risky, so he left.
- 0:20[music] He built Character AI with
- 0:21Daniel DeFreitas. Millions talk to it
- 0:23every day. Then Google came back. In
- 0:262024, [music]
- 0:26it paid 2.7 billion for his technology
- 0:30and for him. He [music] rejoined. He led
- 0:32Gemini. Then, June 2026, he left again
- 0:35>> [music]
- 0:35>> for OpenAI. Sam Altman announced it
- 0:37himself. All eight authors have now left
- 0:39Google. [music] Google invented the
- 0:41Transformer and lost everyone who built
- 0:43it. Follow Vib Economies for more.
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