OpenAI Recruits Transformer Co-Inventor and Trump-Era AI Policy Official Ahead of IPO★ 70
TechCrunch AI39 days agoBusinessOpenAI 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.
Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI★ 74
Hacker News (AI keywords)40 days agoBusinessNoam Shazeer, one of the most influential figures in modern AI and a co-author of the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper, has announced he is joining OpenAI. The move represents a major talent acquisition for OpenAI. No further details about his role or terms were provided in the source announcement.
Silia: A Tiny Transformer Architecture for Sub-10M Parameter Models
r/LocalLLaMA top day47 days agoPaperA student from India shared their first paper on r/LocalLLaMA, proposing Silia, a Transformer architecture for extremely small models. The idea is to merge attention-style dynamic mixing with SwiGLU-like nonlinear transformation, aiming to save parameters in models under roughly 10M parameters. The author frames the work as an early, small-scale exploration, limited by old hardware and restricted access to larger compute.