Published June 18, 2026 at 7:59 PM
TechCrunch
Jun 19, 2026, 6:00 AM
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 same week.
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