All you need to know about the remarkable return of AI engineer Noam Shazeer to Google with a staggering $2.1 billion package.

Google reportedly paid an eye-popping $2.7 billion to lure back a former employee who quit three years ago when the search giant refused to release the chatbot he had developed.

Google has rehired Noam Shazeer for $2.7 billion, along with Daniel De Freitas, to lead its Gemini AI project. Shazeer, previously at Character.AI, is

Google acquired Noam Shazeer's AI startup Character.AI in a $2.7 billion deal with a stipulation that Shazeer starts working for them again

Google recently paid $2.7 billion to rehire 48-year-old AI expert Noam Shazeer, an industry pioneer and co-founder of Character.AI.

Noam Shazeer, 48, was one of Google's early hires, joining the company in 2000. A talented software engineer, Shazeer made his mark in AI, becoming a key figure in Google's early AI development.