OpenAI to acquire Neptune, a startup that helps with AI model training

OpenAI has entered into a definitive agreement to get Neptune, a startup that builds monitoring and de-bugging tools that artificial intelligence companies usage arsenic they bid models.

Neptune and OpenAI person collaborated connected a metrics dashboard to assistance teams that are gathering instauration models. The companies volition enactment "even much intimately together" due to the fact that of the acquisition, Neptune CEO Piotr Niedźwiedź said successful a blog.

The startup volition upwind down its outer services successful the coming months, Niedźwiedź said. The presumption of the acquisition were not disclosed.

"Neptune has built a fast, precise strategy that allows researchers to analyse analyzable grooming workflows," OpenAI's Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said successful a statement. "We program to iterate with them to integrate their tools heavy into our grooming stack to grow our visibility into however models learn."

OpenAI has acquired respective companies this year.

It purchased a tiny interface startup called Software Applications Incorporated for an undisclosed sum successful October, merchandise improvement startup Statsig for $1.1 cardinal successful September and Jony Ive's AI devices startup io for much than $6 billion in May.

Neptune had raised much than $18 cardinal successful backing from investors including Almaz Capital and TDJ Pitango Ventures, according to its website. Neptune's woody with OpenAI is inactive taxable to customary closing conditions.

"I americium genuinely grateful to our customers, investors, co-founders, and colleagues who person made this travel possible," Niedźwiedź said. "It was the thrust of a beingness already, yet inactive I judge this is lone the beginning."

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