Acqui-hires really feel like they’re right here to remain: The workforce behind Alex, a preferred software that lets builders use AI fashions inside Apple’s improvement suite Xcode, is becoming a member of OpenAI.
In a publish on X, Alex’s founder Daniel Edrisian mentioned the startup’s workforce is becoming a member of OpenAI’s Codex division, which is constructing the corporate’s AI coding agent.
Y Combinator-backed Alex was based in 2024 and sought to combine AI fashions into Xcode. Apple, nonetheless, earlier this 12 months up to date Xcode to let customers faucet ChatGPT and different AI fashions while not having exterior instruments. Edrisian didn’t point out if this was a purpose his startup’s workforce has joined OpenAI.
“After we began out, Xcode had no AI. Constructing a “Cursor for Xcode” sounded loopy, however we managed to do it anyway. And, over time, we constructed one of the best coding agent for iOS & MacOS apps,” Edrisian wrote in his publish.
In a publish on Alex’s weblog, the startup mentioned that it will proceed supporting current customers, although the app will now not have the ability to be downloaded after October 1. The corporate famous that the workforce received’t add new options to the software, however would keep the product so long as current customers are utilizing it.
Alex’s Y Combinator itemizing notes that the startup had three folks engaged on the coding software. It’s not clear if all these staff are becoming a member of OpenAI.
We’ve requested OpenAI for a remark, and we’ll replace the story if we hear again.
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OpenAI has executed a number of comparable “acquisitions” previously, hiring solely the workforce behind a startup somewhat than shopping for the entire firm. The corporate earlier this week mentioned it was buying product testing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion.
