Jordi Hays
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Yeah.
co-author of the Transformer T5 Switch Transformer papers, one of the pioneers of sparse MOE models, leaving his VP of engineering, Gemini, co-lead role at Google DeepMind to join OpenAI.
Lisan Al-Ghaib says, this is likely the most significant AI talent move of the year.
It makes you wonder what's going on at Google.
Only matched by the next day, Dean Ball joins OpenAI.
Tyler, you've been at Ballnauer for a long time.
We've had him on the show multiple times.
We love Dean.
And he's been in the complete opposite camp.
He's not an AI researcher.
He's policy, a lot of experience there, and had a really even keel, I think, on a lot of the analyses of should something be supply chain research.
Yeah.
Drop the O. Drop the open.
Just AI.
It's cleaner.
There's closed source models anyway.
Just call it the AI company, I guess.
In other news, Riley Walls did it.
He did the unthinkable.
He bought a street in San Francisco and auctioned it off, and Notion bought it, and now the Notion way is officially born.