TechCrunch AI: OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, a co-inventor of the Transformer architecture, and Dean Ball, a former White House AI policy official. Ball will lead a new team called Strategic Futures to...
Dean Ball previously helped publish America’s AI Action Plan during a stint in the White House and served as a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation. His new team at OpenAI will report to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon and focus on catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvemen...