OpenAI Purchases Startup to Develop ChatGPT and Core Products
On Wednesday, OpenAI said it had bought digital products maker Global Illumination, the first known acquisition by an AI company in the story.
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. Dimson is credited, according to his personal website, with writing some of the original code for Instagram’s content classification algorithms.
