According to TechCrunch, OpenAI is making significant leadership hires as it prepares for its upcoming IPO. The company brought on Noam Shazeer, one of the co-inventors of Transformers, from Google DeepMind. In the same week, it hired Dean Ball, a former Trump administration AI policy official. These moves suggest OpenAI is strengthening its technical pedigree and policy credentials before going public.

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