OpenAI officially announced today the acquisition of AI Reference Systems Inc. Crossing Minds, whose entire team has joined OpenAI.
Crossing Minds A pioneer start-up company focusing on e-commerce A.I.’s referral system. This time, it’s not a direct “buy-up company” but it’s integrating its core members into OpenAI.
The acquisition was aimed at strengthening the capacity of OpenAI in key areas such as personalization referral, retrieval enhancement (RAG) and real-time user modelling, and accelerating the landing of General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) in practical applications.
Crossing Minds Introduction
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Focus on the development of ** behavioral data-based recommended systems for electronics platforms**
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Focus on privacy: main call** understands user preferences without relying on user identification information**
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On behalf of clients: Intuit, Anthropic, Udacity, Chanel
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Obtaining more than 13.5 million in financing, with the following investors: IndexVentures
-Shoppy.
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Plug and Play.
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Radical Ventures.
Crossing Minds, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco and with offices in Toronto and Paris, is committed to providing users with highly personalized shopping advice through real-time behavioral data analysis. They have accumulated extensive experience in recommending engines, real-time machine learning infrastructure, and information retrieval technology, and are one of the recognized pioneers of personalizing AI applications in industry. Crossing Minds had previously received more than $13.5 million in financing from investors such as Index Ventures, Shopify, Plug and Play and Radical Ventures. Currently, the Crossing Minds network has made it clear that ** will no longer accept new clients** and that one of the founders Alexandre Robicquet has also updated its LinkedIn title to “Research, Post-training and Agents at OpenAI”.
Strategic intent: reshaping AI applications
The acquisition is not only a technological consolidation, but also an important step in the OpenAI strategic layout. Analysts point out that OpenAI is intended to achieve the following through the core technology of Crossing Minds: ** Strengthening real-time referral: In-Context-Learning Retrieval Benchmark (ICLERB) of Crossing Minds supports real-time updating of large language models to make them more adaptable in a dynamic environment. This will significantly enhance ChatGPT’s performance in e-commerce, content referral, etc., and create a more accurate user experience. ** Taking advantage of e-commerce AI Market: With competitions such as Google, Percy, and others, the AI referral system, OpenAI has consolidated its competitiveness in this high-growth area by acquiring Crossing Minds. Its technology can provide seamless personalized shopping experiences for retail brands, helping OpenAI to take advantage of the market. Accelerating AGI R & D: The expertise of the Crossing Minds team in understanding user intentions and real-time data processing will inject new energy into the AGI study of OpenAI. The co-founder, Alexandre Robicquet, said, “We believe that a true AI assistant needs a deep understanding of user needs. Joining OpenAI will allow us to integrate this vision into AGI’s ambitious goals.” The pro-competitive layout: X platform discussion shows that industry guesses that OpenAI may be intended to prevent competitors such as Anthropic from pre-empting Crossing Minds and ensuring that their technology is exclusively serving OpenAI’s ecosystem. Introduction of Crossing Minds team will help OpenAI:
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Strengthening its capacity in the area of personal modeling and ** electric commerce recommended systems**
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To expand the commercialization of ChatGPT.
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Promotion of user-friendliness and behavioural understanding systems in Post-Training
Crossing Minds Bulletin: https://www.crossingminds.com/