OpenAI has recently acquired Rockset, an enterprise analytics startup. This acquisition is significant because it involves integrating not only the technology but also the team from Rockset.
OpenAI aims to utilize Rockset’s capabilities to enhance its retrieval infrastructure across various products. The details regarding the terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but it is worth mentioning that Rockset has received a total funding of $105 million so far.
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“Rockset’s infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence,” OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says in a statement. “We’re excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset’s foundation into OpenAI products.”
“Rockset will become part of OpenAI and power the retrieval infrastructure backing OpenAI’s product suite,” Rockset CEO Venkat Venkataramani says in a Rockset blog post. “We’ll be helping OpenAI solve the hard database problems that AI apps face at massive scale.”
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Venkataramani says that current Rockset customers won’t experience “immediate change” and that the company will gradually transition them off the platform. “Some” members of Rockset’s team will move over to OpenAI, Bloomberg says.
