As some of OpenAI’s financials begin to trickle out in advance of the company’s expected initial public offering, investors are getting a better look at where the AI giant stands in the marketplace. But the reaction to those numbers will certainly alter perceptions about the company and could affect the timing of OpenAI’s IPO.

Noam ⁠Shazeer, a ​vice ‌president ‌of ⁠engineering at Google ⁠and co-lead ​of ​its Gemini ⁠artificial ⁠intelligence ⁠models, said on ​Wednesday he ​will ⁠leave ⁠the company to join ⁠OpenAI.