Noam Shazeer OpenAI

Dean Ball Head of Strategic Futures OpenAI

COMPANY FROM: GOOGLE COMPANY TO: OPENAI

Joining OpenAI is the Vice President of Engineering at Google, and co-lead of its flagship AI model, Gemini. Noam was a co-author of the famous 2017 research paper‘ Attention is All You Need’, which he wrote with seven other scientists and engineers working at Google.

JOB FROM: VISITING LECTURER IN LAW AT YALE LAW SCHOOL

JOB TO: HEAD OF STRATEGIC FUTURES AT OPENAI

Dean is set to join OpenAI as Head of Strategic Futures, a new team created to shape frontier AI policy within the company. Dean previously worked as Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

14 July 2026