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2026-06-18 19:59 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

OpenAI Recruits Noam Shazeer and Dean Ball to Bolster Technical and Policy Leadership

OpenAI has hired prominent AI researcher Noam Shazeer and former White House policy official Dean Ball as it prepares for an IPO. Shazeer brings massive technical expertise as a co-inventor of the Transformer architectur...

[OpenAI] [AI Governance] [talent acquisition] [transformer architecture] [strategic futures]

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2025-09-29 20:25 [Research Breakthrough] [SRC↗]

DeepSeek Introduces Sparse Attention Model Cutting Inference Costs by Half

DeepSeek released an experimental model V3.2-exp featuring "Sparse Attention" technology that uses a lightning indexer and fine-grained token selection to dramatically reduce inference costs for long-context operations....

[DeepSeek] [inference optimization] [cost reduction] [sparse attention] [transformer architecture]

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AGI: [+0.02 pp]

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