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Original title: Former Character.AI CEO Noam Chazer takes up a new position after "returning home", and it is reported that he will serve as the co-technical director of Google Gemini

IT Home reported on August 23 that according to a report by The Information this morning Beijing time, a message sent by Google to employees showed that Character.AI co-founder and former CEO Noam Shazeer, who returned to Google this month, will serve as co-technical director of Google's AI project Gemini.

Chazelle will work with longtime Google AI researchers Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals to develop Gemini, which aims to compete with OpenAI's large language model, GPT.

Earlier this month, startup Character.AI announced that it had signed a deal with Google parent Alphabet, granting the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to use its large language model.Character.AI co-founders Noam Chazelle and Daniel de Freitas will return to Google, and a Google spokesperson announced that Noam will join the DeepMind research team.

This year, there have been several cases where technology giants have incorporated the heads of AI startups into their own teams.Similar "big fish eat small fish" cases include Microsoft spending $650 million to hire the co-founders of AI startup Inflection and dozens of their employees in March this year, and Amazon hiring several co-founders and employees of another artificial intelligence startup Adept in June this year.