Context.ai, a startup constructing evaluations and analytics for AI fashions, introduced Tuesday that its co-founders will be part of OpenAI.
Context.ai plans to wind down its merchandise following the acqui-hire, per a message on the corporate’s web site. When reached for remark, OpenAI declined to disclose the phrases of the deal.
“Evals are a requirement to constructing high-performing AI purposes, however they’re laborious to get proper right this moment,” reads the message. “We spent two years constructing evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai — with a couple of pivots alongside the way in which. We couldn’t be extra excited for this subsequent chapter of our journey at OpenAI and are grateful to everybody who performed an element.”
Context.ai was based in 2023 by former Googlers Henry Scott-Inexperienced (CEO) and Alex Gamble (CTO). The startup raised $3.5 million in seed funding from GV and Concept Ventures that very same 12 months.
One among Context.ai’s flagship merchandise was a dashboard clients might use to dig into the info generated by a mannequin and determine if it’s producing content material that really helps reply queries. Context.ai customers might share transcripts through an API, which Context.ai would then analyze to group and tag based mostly on topic.
“The phrase that I at all times hear is that ‘my mannequin is a black field,’” Scott-Inexperienced informed TechCrunch in a 2023 interview. “We’ve spoken to tons of of builders who’re constructing [models], and so they have a very constant set of issues. These issues are that they don’t perceive how individuals are utilizing their mannequin, and so they don’t perceive how their mannequin is performing.”
Context.ai had six staff as of August 2023. It’s unclear how giant the workforce is right this moment, and whether or not each staffer can be provided a job at OpenAI.
In a post on X, Scott-Inexperienced stated that he and Gamble can be creating “the instruments builders have to succeed” at OpenAI, with a concentrate on mannequin evaluations. In accordance with Scott-Green’s LinkedIn profile, he’s now a product supervisor at OpenAI “constructing evals.”