{"id":115692,"date":"2026-06-18T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/google-gemini-co-lead-leaves-for-openai-less-than-2-years-after-billion-dollar-rehire\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:35:55","slug":"google-gemini-co-lead-leaves-for-openai-less-than-2-years-after-billion-dollar-rehire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/google-gemini-co-lead-leaves-for-openai-less-than-2-years-after-billion-dollar-rehire\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini co-lead leaves for OpenAI less than 2 years after billion-dollar rehire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Shazeer, Google&#8217;s Gemini co-lead and self-described inventor of the LLM revolution, is leaving for OpenAI less than two years after Google paid a reported $2.7 billion to rehire him from Character. AI. The vice president of engineering called it a &#8220;difficult decision to move on.&#8221; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who pursued Shazeer for a decade, hailed the hire as &#8220;worth the wait&#8221; as the AI talent war intensifies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Shazeer, Google&#8217;s Gemini co-lead and self-described inventor of the LLM revolution, is leaving for OpenAI less than two years after Google paid a reported $2.7 billion to rehire him from Character. AI. The vice president of engineering called it a &#8220;difficult decision to move on.&#8221; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who pursued Shazeer for a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/google-gemini-co-lead-leaves-for-openai-less-than-2-years-after-billion-dollar-rehire\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Gemini co-lead leaves for OpenAI less than 2 years after billion-dollar rehire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}