OpenAI will acquire Statsig, a startup focused on product testing, in a deal that highlights how the company is building out applications around ChatGPT. Statsig CEO Vijave Raji will become OpenAI's CTO of applications.
In a blog post, OpenAI outlined the deal. Statsig's platform focuses on A/B testing, feature flagging and feedback loops that move products into production. Fidji Simo, CEO of OpenAI's applications unit, said Raji will head product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex, one of OpenAI's first applications.
According to Simo, Raji will have responsibilities "that span core systems and product lines including infrastructure and integrity."
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but reports put the deal at $1.1 billion.
Raji said Statsig will continue to provide its services and invest in its core products.
For OpenAI, Statsig brings a platform that already counts Atlassian, Notion, Brex and Bloomberg as customers. OpenAI is also a customer. Statsig will complement OpenAI's ChatGPT Business and Enterprise plans as well as its API Platform.
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Like Anthropic, OpenAI is building an application stack and ecosystem that can complement and extend ChatGPT. Anthropic is more focused on the enterprise while OpenAI is also looking at the consumer market too. As LLM capabilities all converge to be good enough, it'll be critical to create applications and ecosystems for staying power.
Statsig is a big step toward building out OpenAI's application lineup.
