Character.ai founder to co-lead Gemini AI, says report.

Character.ai founder Noam Shazeer has been appointed to co-lead Google's Gemini AI project, according to a report. Shazeer, who previously worked at Google for 18 years, left to start his own company before returning to join the Gemini AI team alongside Jeff Dean and Orial Vinyals. The move comes after Google signed a deal with Character.ai, providing funding and a non-exclusive license for its LLM technology. Other cloud service providers, such as Microsoft and AWS, have also been acquiring AI expertise from startups to enhance their own offerings. [Extracted from the article]