{"id":39290,"date":"2025-09-02T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39290\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:35:07","slug":"openai-acquires-product-testing-startup-statsig-and-shakes-up-its-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39290\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI announced in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/vijaye-raji-to-become-cto-of-applications-with-acquisition-of-statsig\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statsig.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Statsig<\/a>, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company\u2019s CTO of Applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal \u2014 one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker \u2014 under the company\u2019s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acquisition marks OpenAI\u2019s latest effort to build out its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/07\/instacart-ceo-fidji-simo-is-joining-openai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Applications business<\/a>, helmed by the former CEO of Instacart, Fidji Simo, who started work at the company a few weeks ago. Raji will report to Simo and will head product engineering for ChatGPT, the company\u2019s AI coding tool Codex, and future applications that OpenAI plans to build. The company says that bringing Statsig\u2019s experimentation platform in-house will accelerate product development across the Applications organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Raji comes on board, OpenAI is making changes to its leadership team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company\u2019s Chief Product Officer, Kevin Weil, will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science, he announced in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/kevinweil_im-starting-something-new-inside-openai-activity-7368704715615891456-cIG3?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACoP3XgBeulmY2c4Z8VFNF9GxGTf_WUCkJI\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on LinkedIn. Weil says the goal of his new organization \u201cis to build the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery.\u201d Weil says he will work closely with Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher and the Former VP of AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m able to do this because the product and design leaders at OpenAI are amazing, and now are complemented by Fidji Simo beginning her role as CEO of Applications,\u201d said Weil. \u201cOpenAI\u2019s products have been my life since I joined, and they\u2019re in great hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, OpenAI\u2019s current head of engineering, Srinivas Narayanan, announced in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/srinivasnarayanan_im-excited-to-share-that-im-transitioning-activity-7368705215933374466-frjZ?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACoP3XgBeulmY2c4Z8VFNF9GxGTf_WUCkJI\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on LinkedIn that he would transition to a new role as the company\u2019s CTO of B2B Applications. In the role, Narayanan says he will collaborate directly with OpenAI\u2019s COO, Brad Lightcap, who oversees many of the company\u2019s relationships with enterprise customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI says the Statsig acquisition is pending regulatory review. Once completed, the company says that all Statsig employees will become OpenAI employees. However, the product testing startup will \u201ccontinue operating independently and serving its customer base out of its Seattle office,\u201d the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[30145,291,289,290,18,19,17,3116,307,30146,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-39290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-acquistions","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-ma","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-statsig","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}