OpenAI Recruits Transformer Co-Inventor and Trump-Era AI Policy Official Ahead of IPO★ 70
TechCrunch AI·39 days ago·Business
OpenAI is accelerating its talent acquisition strategy in the run-up to its IPO, securing two marquee names in a single week. Noam Shazeer, a co-inventor of the Transformer architecture that underlies virtually all modern AI, joins from Google DeepMind. Dean Ball, a former AI policy official from the Trump administration, also joins, signaling OpenAI's intent to strengthen its policy and regulatory positioning alongside its technical bench.