OpenAI has acquired Global Illumination, a 2021 startup company in New York that uses AI to create tools, infrastructure, and digital experiences. This is OpenAI’s first public acquisition since its own establishment seven years ago. The details of the deal have not been disclosed. The entire team of Global Illumination joined OpenAI to work on core products, including ChatGPT. This acquisition by OpenAi might be due, in part, to OpenAI’s plans to bring a powerful portable consumer AI-device to market, since Global Illumination would have the UI expertise required to bring a radically new AI-device to market.
Global Illumination has been involved in various design projects and has worked with companies like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Pixar, and Riot Games. One recent project by Global Illumination is Biomes, an open-source sandbox MMORPG similar to Minecraft. OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft and other venture capital firms, has previously focused on funds and grant programs to invest in emerging AI companies and organizations, so this acquisition is unusual.
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