Kunal Shah’s WhatsApp coronation is a masterclass in dealmakingShah is stepping down as Cred’s chief executive, with finance and strategy head Miten Sampat taking over on an interim basis. Shah becomes ...
23 Jun, 2026, 08.58 PM IST
Noam Shazeer hired by Google for $2.7 billion in 2024 leaves the tech giant in less than 18 months to join Sam Altman's Open AINoam Shazeer, a key figure in Google's Gemini AI development, is departing the company. He will now join rival OpenAI. Shazeer previously l...
18 Jun, 2026, 10.45 AM IST
Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAIIn 2024, Google appointed Shazeer to co-lead the development of its Gemini AI model, and he has been credited as key figure behind Gemini'...
18 Jun, 2026, 07.42 AM IST
Google, Character.AI agree to settle suits involving teen suicideGoogle and Character.AI have agreed in principle to settle several lawsuits by families alleging AI chatbots harmed children, including a c...
08 Jan, 2026, 08.20 AM IST
Zuckerberg finally snaps! LeCun’s Meta exit reportedly sparked by $15 billion Alexandr Wang dealMeta’s AI chief Yann LeCun reportedly left after CEO Mark Zuckerberg put Alexandr Wang in charge of AI. LeCun disagreed with using large la...
13 Nov, 2025, 06.40 PM IST
Why is Big Tech dangling millions of dollars for chosen AI engineers?Tech companies are laying off workers, citing AI's efficiency, while simultaneously offering exorbitant sums to acquire top AI talent. This...
13 Jul, 2025, 09.54 AM IST
Google faces DOJ probe over Character. AI deal: ReportOther tech giants have struck similar deals in the past year in their push for growth in the heated generative AI race. Microsoft struck a ...
23 May, 2025, 09.04 AM IST
Google spends Rs 23,000 crore to bring back former AI employee, sparks overspending debate in AI raceNoam Shazeer, an AI pioneer who left Google in 2021, has returned to the company after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire his startup, Cha...
07 Oct, 2024, 04.47 PM IST
Google reportedly wrote a $2.7 billion cheque to bring back Character.AI co-founder Noam Shazeer: Here's whyGoogle has reappointed Noam Shazeer, a key figure in AI known for developing LaMDA. After leaving Google in 2021 to co-found Character.AI, ...
25 Sep, 2024, 10.46 PM IST
Google appoints former Character. AI founder as co-lead of its AI modelsNoam Shazeer will serve as a technical lead on Gemini, joining the other co-leaders Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals, the company said in a memo...
23 Aug, 2024, 08.57 AM IST
The new AI deal: buy everything but the companyWhile big tech companies typically buy startups outright, they have turned to a more complicated deal structure for young AI companies. It ...
09 Aug, 2024, 06.45 PM IST
Google hires top talent from startup Character AI, signs licensing dealCharacter.AI announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Google's parent company, Alphabet. The startup's co-founders will return to...
03 Aug, 2024, 09.06 AM IST
Open-source AI models released by Tokyo lab Sakana founded by former Google researchersSakana AI employed a technique called "model merging" which combines existing AI models to yield a new model, combining it with an approach...
21 Mar, 2024, 12.24 PM IST
Google in talks to invest in AI startup Character.AIThe investment, which could be structured as convertible notes, according to a third source, will deepen the existing partnership Character...
11 Nov, 2023, 10.14 AM IST
Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in TokyoTwo prominent former Google researchers, one of whom was a co-inventor of the "transformer" artificial intelligence architecture that paved...
18 Aug, 2023, 12.34 AM IST
Top ex-Google AI researchers raise $8 million in funding from Thrive CapitalThrive Capital had led the round in Essential AI, founded by Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar. The company is still in stealth mode and hasn'...
04 May, 2023, 05.56 PM IST
Chatbot startup Character AI valued at $1 billion in new funding roundCharacter.AI is among a tiny group of small companies - along with the tech industry's giants - that are building technology that could one...
24 Mar, 2023, 10.17 AM IST