{"id":24394,"date":"2025-04-16T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24394\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:32:08","slug":"openai-hires-team-behind-gv-backed-ai-eval-platform-context-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24394\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/context.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Context.ai<\/a>, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company\u2019s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvals are a requirement to building high-performing AI applications, but they\u2019re hard to get right today,\u201d reads the message. \u201cWe spent two years building evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai \u2014 with a few pivots along the way. We couldn\u2019t be more excited for this next chapter of our journey at OpenAI and are grateful to everyone who played a part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Context.ai was founded in 2023 by former Googlers Henry Scott-Green (CEO) and Alex Gamble (CTO). The startup raised <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/30\/context-ai-is-merging-product-analytics-sensibilities-with-llms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$3.5 million in seed funding<\/a> from GV and Theory Ventures that same year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Context.ai\u2019s flagship products was a dashboard customers could use to dig into the data generated by a model and figure out if it\u2019s producing content that truly helps answer queries. Context.ai users could share transcripts via an API, which Context.ai would then analyze to group and tag based on subject. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe phrase that I always hear is that \u2018my model is a black box,\u2019\u201d Scott-Green told TechCrunch in a 2023 interview. \u201cWe\u2019ve spoken to hundreds of developers who are building [models], and they have a really consistent set of problems. Those problems are that they don\u2019t understand how people are using their model, and they don\u2019t understand how their model is performing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Context.ai had six employees as of August 2023. It\u2019s unclear how large the team is today, and whether every staffer will be offered a job at OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/henrysg\/status\/1912144189384442111?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post on X<\/a>, Scott-Green said that he and Gamble will be creating \u201cthe tools developers need to succeed\u201d at OpenAI, with a focus on model evaluations. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alex-gamble-13682086\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Scott-Green\u2019s LinkedIn profile<\/a>, he\u2019s now a product manager at OpenAI \u201cbuilding evals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[15111,323,1942,15112,1318,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-24394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-acquihire","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-context-ai","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114346953457077767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}