Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the yearly Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference astatine the Sun Valley Resort successful Sun Valley, Idaho, connected July 8, 2025.
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OpenAI continued its spending spree, announcing connected Tuesday that it's acquired Statsig, a merchandise improvement startup, for $1.1 billion.
Statsig helps OpenAI and different companies trial features and usage real-time information successful their operations. As portion of the acquisition, Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji is joining OpenAI arsenic exertion main successful the applications unit. He volition study to Fidji Simo, the erstwhile Instacart CEO who was tapped to pb OpenAI's applications business successful May.
"Working with the unthinkable squad astatine OpenAI to physique AI-powered experiences astatine standard for radical and businesses is simply a uncommon and meaningful opportunity," Raji wrote successful a station connected LinkedIn. "Doing that with the assistance of tools we built astatine Statsig makes it adjacent much special."
Statsig volition proceed to run independently and service customers retired of its Seattle office, OpenAI said. The acquisition is inactive taxable to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval.
"Vijaye has a singular grounds of gathering caller user and B2B products and systems astatine scale," Simo said successful a statement.
OpenAI has been buying aggressively of late, putting immoderate of the hefty currency heap it's raised and the soaring worth of its banal to usage to substance maturation successful caller areas. Its biggest splash came successful May, erstwhile OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's AI devices startup IO for adjacent to $6.5 cardinal successful an all-equity woody that pushes the institution firmly into hardware. Prior to that, OpenAI acquired analytics database company Rockset for an undisclosed sum successful 2024.
Earlier this year, OpenAI had planned to bargain AI-assisted coding tool Windsurf for $3 billion, but a woody ne'er materialized, and Google ended up bringing connected the startup's co-founder arsenic portion of a $2.4 cardinal licensing deal.
"The travel with Statsig has been profoundly gratifying, starring maine to this infinitesimal and giving maine condemnation that we volition proceed helping teams vessel amended bundle each day," Raji said successful a statement.
WATCH: OpenAI acquires bundle startup Statsig for $1.1 billion
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