OpenAI continued its spending spree, announcing on Tuesday that it has acquired Statsig, a product development startup, for $1.1 billion. Statsig helps OpenAI and other companies test features and use real-time data in their operations.

The release of Open AI's ChatGPT has accelerated the development of artificial intelligence and warnings about its impact on society.

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OpenAI has completed a $1.1 billion all-equity acquisition of Statsig, a software company specializing in A-B testing and product experimentation. Statsig, which counts Microsoft among its clients, will be fully integrated into OpenAI, differing from recent industry 'acquihire' trends where only talent is acquired.

As part of the deal, Statsig founder Vijay Raji will become OpenAI's chief technology officer of applications, overseeing product engineering for ChatGPT. The acquisition is part of a broader leadership reshuffle at OpenAI, aimed at accelerating the development and delivery of enterprise products. The move comes amid heightened competition in the AI sector, with rivals like Anthropic also making significant business moves.

OpenAI acquires software startup Statsig for $1.1B

We've got a news alert on Chat GPT parent OpenAI. Mackenzie Sagalos, what's going on? Hey there, Brian. So OpenAI just made one of its biggest purchases yet, paying $1.1 billion in an all-equity purchase for StatSig, according to a source close to the deal. Now, this is a software startup best known for A-B testing and product experimentation with a customer list that includes Microsoft. Now, the deal stands out in an industry defined lately by aqua hires like Meta with ScaleAI or Google with Windsurf, where in practice, it's really only the talent changing hands. But this time, OpenAI is buying the entire company, raising questions about whether rivals will keep using StatSig now that it's in-house. Its founder, Vijay Raji, will become OpenAI's chief technology officer of applications, reporting to Fiji Simo, who he overlapped with at Meta. He'll oversee product engineering for Chat GPT. Now, at the same time, we are seeing a wider leadership reshuffle across the company, Brian. OpenAI telling me that the deal and position changes are about building out its enterprise offerings and shipping those products faster. All right. So just while you were talking, I briefly scanned StatSig's website. So I'm going to give you my 30-second expert view. So I'm a real pro, Mack, in this. It looks like StatSig as a company takes a lot of data and then tries to come up with some kind of logical outcome. In other words, it's a thinking machine in some ways. My best guess is maybe OpenAI is making this because OpenAI is filled with data. It's all they got, billions and billions of data points every day. And the key for anybody is to just make sense and have some conclusion from all that outcome and all that data. No? I know. That is a strong read of what the company does. And it's really on the product experimentation side where it proves that utility, which is key here. Because think about what OpenAI has been pushing to do in the last few months with GPT, well, in the last month with GPT-5, they're going after the enterprise customer, which has really been Anthropic's bread and butter, catering to that B2B consumer. And what they're looking to do is bring more products to market faster. And so this really helps to expedite that process. And it comes as, I mean, just today, Brian, Anthropic announcing that they closed their Series F. They've tripled their valuation. You've got OpenAI going out to employees just this week at a valuation of half a trillion dollars. So there's a lot of money at stake. Maybe it's just buying the ice cream cone so the other guy that you just mentioned can't have the ice cream. Either way, another deal, OpenAI spending some of that money. Mackenzie Segalos, appreciate it. Thank you.

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