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Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"

The Times Tech Podcast

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How Long Did You Work at Google?

I joined Google at the end of 2000. I built a few things that were considered AI for the time. And then in 2012 I came back and got on to this Google Brain project. When did you leave Google? I left in let's see, October 2021. So we raised some seed money to build this company we call character.

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