OpenAI's first public acquisition: take down Global Illumination, a digital products company, and enhance core products such as ChatGPT
CTOnews.com, August 17 (Xinhua)-- on Wednesday, OpenAI announced the acquisition of digital products company Global Illumination, the first public acquisition by OpenAI for an undisclosed amount.
OpenAI said that the entire team of Global Illumination has joined OpenAI and is committed to developing its core products, including ChatGPT.
Global Illumination is a New York company founded in 2021, whose founders Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn have all worked for Instagram, which is owned by Meta Platforms. CTOnews.com notes that Global Illumination has recently focused on developing open source technologies related to online game production. Dimson said on his personal website that he was involved in writing part of the original code of the Instagram content ranking algorithm.
