OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination to Develop Core Products, Including ChatGPT
In a notable move, OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it has successfully purchased Global Illumination, a digital products company. This marks the first-ever acquisition made by the renowned artificial intelligence firm.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
“The entire (Global Illumination) team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products, including ChatGPT,” OpenAI said.
New York-based Global Illumination was founded in 2021 by Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn, all of whom previously worked at Meta Platforms’ Instagram.
Global Illumination most recently worked on open source technology related to the production of online games. According to his personal website, Dimson is credited with writing some of the original code for Instagram’s content classification algorithms.
