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A few weeks ago, amid the blizzard of news about deals in the artificial intelligence sector, Bloomberg revealed the existence of a unique initiative underway inside OpenAI.

Code-named Mercury, the secretive project involved the hiring of about 100 former investment bankers from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

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