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 functions, however they’re arduous to get proper at the moment,” reads the message. “We spent two years constructing evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai — with a number of pivots alongside the best way. 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-Green (CEO) and Alex Gamble (CTO). The startup raised $3.5 million in seed funding from GV and Theory Ventures that very same yr.
One of Context.ai’s flagship merchandise was a dashboard clients may 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 may share transcripts through an API, which Context.ai would then analyze to group and tag primarily based on topic.
“The phrase that I at all times hear is that ‘my mannequin is a black field,’” Scott-Green informed TechCrunch in a 2023 interview. “We’ve spoken to tons of of builders who’re constructing [models], they usually have a extremely constant set of issues. Those issues are that they don’t perceive how individuals are utilizing their mannequin, they usually don’t perceive how their mannequin is performing.”
Context.ai had six workers as of August 2023. It’s unclear how giant the workforce is at the moment, and whether or not each staffer might be provided a job at OpenAI.
In a publish on X, Scott-Green stated that he and Gamble might be creating “the instruments builders have to succeed” at OpenAI, with a deal with mannequin evaluations. According to Scott-Green’s LinkedIn profile, he’s now a product supervisor at OpenAI “constructing evals.”
