OpenAI’s latest hires tell us something clear: the company isn’t just preparing to sell shares. It’s preparing to defend its place at the centre of the AI race.The ChatGPT maker has brought in Noam Shazeer, one of Google’s most important AI figures, and Dean Ball, a former White House AI policy adviser, as it prepares for a possible IPO. OpenAI has already confirmed that it submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, though it says it hasn’t picked a listing date yet.Shazeer has been around Google since 2000, apart from a period when he left to co-found Character.AI. Do you think that OPenAI is noe fully a profit making organization ?
