--- title: OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to... description: OpenAI is making high-profile hires ahead of its IPO. Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-lead of Google's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-bringing-on-some-big-guns-in-the-lead-up-to-its-ipo-fcfep9aoq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI is making high-profile hires ahead of its IPO. Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-lead of Google's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-bringing-on-some-big-guns-in-the-lead-up-to-its-ipo-fcfep9aoq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fCfep9aOq.png og:image:alt: OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI is making high-profile hires ahead of its IPO. Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the landmark 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-lead of Google's Gemini, is leaving Google DeepMind to join OpenAI. Simultaneously, Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, is joining to lead a new 'Strategic Futures' team focused on frontier AI policy, catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, and the relationship between AI labs and governments. Ball's hire is seen as OpenAI positioning itself favorably with the current U.S. administration, especially as rival Anthropic faces an export control ban on its latest models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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