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 immediately,” reads the message. “We spent two years constructing evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai — with just a few 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 a component.”
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 Idea Ventures that very same 12 months.
One among Context.ai’s flagship merchandise was a dashboard prospects may use to dig into the info generated by a mannequin and determine if it’s producing content material that actually helps reply queries. Context.ai customers may share transcripts by way of an API, which Context.ai would then analyze to group and tag primarily based on topic.
“The phrase that I all the time hear is that ‘my mannequin is a black field,’” Scott-Inexperienced advised TechCrunch in a 2023 interview. “We’ve spoken to a whole lot 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 persons 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 immediately, and whether or not each staffer can be provided a job at OpenAI.
In a put up on X, Scott-Inexperienced mentioned that he and Gamble can be creating “the instruments builders have to succeed” at OpenAI, with a concentrate on mannequin evaluations. In keeping with Scott-Inexperienced’s LinkedIn profile, he’s now a product supervisor at OpenAI “constructing evals.”
