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OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
Summary
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
Why It Matters
Signals increasing investor interest and capital allocation in AI startups.
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