{"id":998928,"date":"2026-03-23T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998928"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:09:25","slug":"ai-boom-openai-set-to-double-its-team-by-end-of-2026-new-hires-to-be-deployed-across-these-fields-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/23\/ai-boom-openai-set-to-double-its-team-by-end-of-2026-new-hires-to-be-deployed-across-these-fields-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom? OpenAI set to double its team by end of 2026; new hires to be deployed across these fields &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI said it plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from the existing 4,500 by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>As per the report, the AI startup is set to deploy most of the new hires across product development, engineering, research and sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI said it plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from the existing 4,500 by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. As per the report, the AI startup is set to deploy most of the new hires across product development, engineering, research and sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}