Alphabet edges lower with shares near $362 after Gemini engineer Shazeer goes to OpenAI
Alphabet Class A lost 0.42% to $362.26 in premarket trading Thursday. Noam Shazeer, a top leader for Google’s Gemini AI, is going to OpenAI. “Incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google,” Shazeer said. Google called his work “meaningful.” Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion less than two years ago to bring Shazeer and his group back.