OpenAI said Wednesday that it has acquired digital products company Global Illumination, the storied artificial intelligence company’s first known acquisition.
Financial details of the transaction 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 worked on Meta Platforms’ Instagram.
Global Illumination has recently worked on open source technologies related to online game production. According to Dimson’s personal website, he is believed to have drafted some of the original code for Instagram’s content-ranking algorithm.
Meanwhile, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that many workers across the U.S. are turning to ChatGPT to help with basic tasks, even as employers such as Microsoft and Google limit its use due to concerns. Companies around the world are considering how best to utilize ChatGPT, a chatbot program that uses generative artificial intelligence to engage in conversations with users and answer countless prompts. However, security firms and corporations worry that this could lead to the leakage of intellectual property and strategy.
Anecdotal examples of people using ChatGPT to help with everyday tasks, including drafting emails, summarizing documents, and conducting preliminary research.
Some 28 percent of respondents to an online artificial intelligence (AI) survey conducted between July 11 and 17 said they regularly use ChatGPT at work, while only 22 percent said their employer explicitly allows it class external tools.
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