OpenAI introduced in a weblog submit on Tuesday that it agreed to amass the product testing startup Statsig, and convey on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the corporate’s CTO of Functions.
OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of many largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — beneath the corporate’s present $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wooden instructed Trendster.
The acquisition marks OpenAI’s newest effort to construct out its Functions enterprise, helmed by the previous CEO of Instacart, Fidji Simo, who began work on the firm just a few weeks in the past. Raji will report back to Simo and can head product engineering for ChatGPT, the corporate’s AI coding device Codex, and future purposes that OpenAI plans to construct. The corporate says that bringing Statsig’s experimentation platform in-house will speed up product growth throughout the Functions group.
As Raji comes on board, OpenAI is making modifications to its management workforce.
The corporate’s chief product officer, Kevin Weil, will turn into VP of a brand new group known as OpenAI for Science, he introduced in a submit on LinkedIn. Weil says the purpose of his new group “is to construct the subsequent nice scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery.” Weil says he’ll work intently with Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher and the previous VP of AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.
“I’m in a position to do that as a result of the product and design leaders at OpenAI are superb, and now are complemented by Fidji Simo starting her function as CEO of Functions,” mentioned Weil. “OpenAI’s merchandise have been my life since I joined, and so they’re in nice palms.”
In the meantime, OpenAI’s present head of engineering, Srinivas Narayanan, introduced in a submit on LinkedIn that he would transition to a brand new function as the corporate’s CTO of B2B purposes. Within the function, Narayanan says he’ll collaborate straight with OpenAI’s COO, Brad Lightcap, who oversees most of the firm’s relationships with enterprise clients.
OpenAI says the Statsig acquisition is pending regulatory assessment. As soon as accomplished, the corporate says that each one Statsig staff will turn into OpenAI staff. Nevertheless, the product testing startup will “proceed working independently and serving its buyer base out of its Seattle workplace,” the corporate mentioned of their weblog submit.





