Google pays a huge sum to bring back employee Shazier after his resignation!

Google is seriously looking to make a big deal to rehire Noam Shazier, who left the company in 2021.

Huge deal brings Shazier back to Google Shazier's journey began after he left Google when he launched his own company, after the company refused to release the chatbot he had developed.

Character.AI, Shazier's startup, continued to see success at first, but over time it began to face financial problems. Faced with these challenges, Google decided to offer Shazier a large financial compensation.

According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, Google has written a check for nearly $2.7 billion to Character.AI. The official reason for the sum is the licensing of Character’s technology, but the deal also included a condition that Shazier return to Google.

Some inside Google see Shazier’s return as a major driver behind the company’s high licensing fees. The deal has sparked a debate in Silicon Valley about whether big tech companies are spending too much in the race to develop artificial intelligence.

Shazier's career and achievements at Google The 48-year-old engineer is now among the leaders of Google's efforts to develop next-generation artificial intelligence technologies known as Gemini.

Shazier was able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from his stake in Character as part of the deal, a significant sum for a founder who has never sold or taken his company public.

Noam Shazier joined Google in 2000 as one of its first employees, where he played a major role in developing spell-correcting technologies. In 2017, Shazier and a group of colleagues published a famous research paper titled “Attention is All You Need,” which formed the basis for the advancement of generative AI.

Shazier also teamed up with colleague Daniel de Freitas to develop the chatbot Meena, which was expected to be an alternative to Google's search engine and generate trillions of dollars in revenue, according to circulated documents that include Shazier's ambitious vision.