OpenAI hires Transformer co‑author and ex‑White House AI chief ahead of IPO
OpenAI has added two high‑profile hires: Noam Shazeer, co‑author of the 2017 Transformer paper who led Gemini at Google, and Dean Ball, former White House AI policy adviser. Their arrivals bolster OpenAI’s technical depth and policy credibility as the company gears up for an IPO, signalling a push to manage both frontier risk and regulatory scrutiny.