New Delhi, June 18 -- Noam Shazeer, Google's vice president of engineering and co-lead of its Gemini artificial intelligence models, has announced that he is leaving the company to join OpenAI.

Sharing the news on X, Shazeer wrote: "I'm excited to share that I'll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there."

The American computer scientist described the move as a difficult one and expressed gratitude towards his colleagues at Google.

"It was a difficult decision to move on. I'm incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we've built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you," he added.

Shazeer's departure quickly became a major talking point online, with m...