Google spent $2.1 billion to ‘rehire’ top AI engineer who quit Alphabet in frustration in 2021

Google spent over $2.7 billion to get Shazeer, De Freitas, and Character.AI ’s tech team back under its roof. This wasn’t a simple buyout but rather a clever ‘reverse acqui-hire’ deal. Google didn’t fully acquire the company but only licensed the tech and rehired key staff


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