Openai Acquires Product Testing Startup Statsig And Shakes Up Its Leadership Team

OpenAI announced successful a blog post connected Tuesday that it agreed to get nan merchandise testing startup, Statsig, and bring connected its laminitis and CEO, Vijaye Raji, arsenic nan company’s CTO of Applications.

OpenAI is paying $1.1 cardinal for Statsig successful an all-stock woody — 1 of nan largest acquisitions ever for nan ChatGPT shaper — nether nan company’s existent $300 cardinal valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch.

The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build retired its Applications business, helmed by nan erstwhile CEO of Instacart, Fidji Simo, who started activity astatine nan institution a fewer weeks ago. Raji will study to Simo and will caput merchandise engineering for ChatGPT, nan company’s AI coding instrumentality Codex, and early applications that OpenAI plans to build. The institution says that bringing Statsig’s experimentation level in-house will accelerate merchandise improvement crossed nan Applications organization.

As Raji comes connected board, OpenAI is making changes to its activity team.

The company’s Chief Product Officer, Kevin Weil, will go VP of a caller group called OpenAI for Science, he announced successful a post connected LinkedIn. Weil says nan extremity of his caller statement “is to build nan adjacent awesome technological instrument: an AI-powered level that accelerates technological discovery.” Weil says he will activity intimately pinch Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI interrogator and nan Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist astatine Microsoft.

“I’m capable to do this because nan merchandise and creation leaders astatine OpenAI are amazing, and now are complemented by Fidji Simo opening her domiciled arsenic CEO of Applications,” said Weil. “OpenAI’s products person been my life since I joined, and they’re successful awesome hands.”

Meanwhile, OpenAI’s existent caput of engineering, Srinivas Narayanan, announced successful a post connected LinkedIn that he would modulation to a caller domiciled arsenic nan company’s CTO of B2B Applications. In nan role, Narayanan says he will collaborate straight pinch OpenAI’s COO, Brad Lightcap, who oversees galore of nan company’s relationships pinch endeavor customers.

OpenAI says nan Statsig acquisition is pending regulatory review. Once completed, nan institution says that each Statsig labor will go OpenAI employees. However, nan merchandise testing startup will “continue operating independently and serving its customer guidelines retired of its Seattle office,” nan institution said successful a blog post.