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News of the day
1. OpenAI recruits Google DeepMind's Noam Shazeer and ex-White House official Dean Ball to bolster its team ahead of its IPO. → Read more
2. Discover if AI models remember you! 'In the Weights' website reveals personal data embedded in training sets, ranking individuals by recall depth. → Read more
3. OpenAI's AI model successfully identified 18 rare diseases, showcasing its potential in medical diagnostics and research. → Read more
4. Meta's AI unit faces internal revolt amid ambitious AI race, Peter Thiel's secret society exposed, and SBF seeks Trump pardon. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
This week, OpenAI is hiring two profiles that couldn't be more different, and it's exactly that contrast that tells a story. On one side, Noam Shazeer, one of the minds behind the paper "Attention Is All You Need" that gave birth to Transformers, poached from Google DeepMind. On the other, Dean Ball, a former Trump White House official, arriving July 6 to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, in charge of frontier model policy.
On paper, the headline is the technical signing. In reality, the real signal is Ball's arrival. A few weeks out from its public listing, OpenAI isn't just bulking up its R&D, it's locking down its address book in Washington. And the timing is anything but innocent. Last week, the US administration banned exports of Anthropic's latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing the rival to pull them from the market. While one lab gets squeezed, the other settles comfortably into the corridors of power.
This is where the game changes nature. The next battle between labs won't be fought on benchmarks alone, but on regulatory positioning and access to decision makers. Hiring the inventor of the Transformer looks great in the press release. Hiring someone who knows the entry code to the White House is pure strategy.
And while the labs fight over talent and the favor of the State, the concrete deployments are moving forward elsewhere, more quietly. Yesterday, we talked about HSBC sealing a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to industrialize more than 200 AI use cases. Two fronts, then: the influence war on the labs' side, and the methodical conquest of the enterprise on the cloud's side. Guess which one generates revenue first.
Alex.
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