Crossing Minds, a startup that gives AI suggestion methods to e-commerce companies, stated on Thursday that its crew is becoming a member of OpenAI.
The startup was backed by Index Ventures, Shopify, Plug and Play, and Radical Ventures, and had raised greater than $13.5 million throughout a number of rounds, in line with Crunchbase.
Crossing Minds largely labored with e-commerce firms to enhance their personalization and suggestion methods. The corporate claims it research clients’ on-site conduct information to assemble insights on their buying preferences with out compromising privateness.
“Becoming a member of OpenAI permits us to convey our work — and our values — right into a mission we deeply respect: to make sure synthetic common intelligence advantages all of humanity. We’re thrilled to convey our expertise and vitality to a crew that’s setting the route for the way forward for AI. We’re excited to study, to contribute, and to assist form what’s subsequent,” the startup’s co-founders wrote in a submit on its web site.
Alexandre Robicquet, one of many co-founders, has up to date his bio on LinkedIn, which now reads “Analysis, Submit-training and Brokers at OpenAI.” It isn’t clear if all of Crossing Minds’ crew is becoming a member of OpenAI.
Crossing Minds’ web site additionally says that the corporate received’t take up any extra purchasers. Per its archived “About” page, Crossing Thoughts beforehand stated it was trusted by Intuit, Anthropic, Udacity and Chanel.
AI firms have constructed a plethora of instruments to assist clients store. Google and Perplexity have launched AI options to enhance suggestions, whereas startups like Daydream have acquired large investments to launch AI buying assistants.
Earlier this yr, OpenAI up to date ChatGPT to offer suggestions, pictures, and critiques for gadgets its customers ask questions on.
OpenAI didn’t instantly return a request for remark.