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Noam Shazeer Just Left Google for OpenAI: The Last Transformer Father Walks Out

On June 18, 2026, Noam Shazeer -- Google VP of Engineering, Gemini co-lead, and the last Google author of the 2017 Transformer paper -- announced he was joining OpenAI. All eight original authors have now left Google.