Noam Shazeer

Founder & CEO

Co-author of the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. Led the LaMDA project at Google before co-founding Character.AI. Returned to Google in August 2024.

Overview

Companies
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Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
Character.AI $193M
Private Founder & CEO

Character.AI is a generative AI chatbot platform that lets users create and interact with customizable AI characters. Founded by former Google engineers who co-authored the Transformer paper and led the LaMDA project, the platform has over 20 million monthly active users.

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