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

Source: techcrunch.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:59:22 GMT

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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The same story across the political spectrum (5 sources)

Center-Right: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI — www.cnbc.com
Center-Right: California’s counting on an IPO tax windfall. Several factors are complicating the equation — www.cnbc.com
Center: SpaceX acquires Anthropic and OpenAI rival in $60B deal — finance.yahoo.com
Center-Left: Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months — www.theverge.com

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