GeneralCA / Silicon Valley·Ranked Friday, June 19, 2026

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

“OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the…”
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