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Google has appointed Noam Shazeer, the former CEO and co-founder of Character AI, as a co-technical lead for its Gemini project. This appointment follows a significant $2.7 billion licensing deal that facilitated his return to the company. Shazeer will collaborate with prominent figures such as Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals on the Gemini AI initiative, according to an internal memo.