OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1B, Names Raji CTO of Applications
techrepublic.comNew CTO of applications Vijaye Raji brings his testing business with him as OpenAI takes some application work off of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI is making one of its largest bets yet with a $1.1 billion all-stock acquisition of Statsig, a product experimentation startup whose 150 employees and platform will now fold into its fast-growing applications division.
As part of the deal, Statsig founder Vijaye Raji has been named OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer of Applications, where he will oversee product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.
“Joining OpenAI as CTO of Applications is an extraordinary opportunity to bring my experience scaling consumer and enterprise products to a mission I deeply believe in: advancing AI in ways that are capable of solving hard problems, reliable, and truly beneficial to people everywhere,” Raji said in a blog post on Sept. 2.
The applications team now ...
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