Noam Shazeer is an AI researcher and engineer who co-invented the Transformer architecture and co-authored the landmark 2017 paper widely credited with catalyzing the generative-AI boom. Noam Shazeer's Twitter Score is 115 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,793 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Noam Shazeer co-founded Character. AI, which raised $150 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $1 billion post-money valuation. He previously worked at Google as vice president of engineering. In June 2026, he announced he would leave Google and join OpenAI, where he works as an AI Scientist.
Noam Shazeer has accumulated 84,603 followers as of August 2026 across 32 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 36 accounts, with 53 total mentions.
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