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Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday.
Shazeer left Google in 2021 to co-found a chatbot startup Character.AI, but rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal with his AI startup. He then became a tech lead on Gemini, Google’s core AI model, and made key contributions to the initial development of new generations of the model, known as pretraining.
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Software developers are starting to combine the two most successful uses of large language models: coding and customer support.Specifically, they’re using AI to automate the process of turning customer complaints about software issues or feature requests into new code. Previously, that could be a long and tedious process, which involved sending customer support tickets to a company’s support team, directing those issues to the relevant engineer, and coding up and... Read more ›
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8VC, the venture firm run by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, raised a $1.5 billion fund—the firm’s seventh and largest—aimed at investing in manufacturing, defense tech and healthcare, Lonsdale announced in a post on X. The Austin-based firm’s fundraise comes 15 months after the firm raised ... Read more ›
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Two senior executives in Uber’s data-labeling business have recently left their positions, the latest senior reorganization at the ride-hailing company. Pankaj Kamat, director of product at Uber AI Solutions, and Naga Kasu, senior director of engineering for AI Data Infrastructure, have ... Read more ›
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