Context.ai, a startup constructing evaluations and analytics for AI fashions, introduced Tuesday that its co-founders will be a 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 exhausting to get proper in the present day,” reads the message. “We spent two years constructing evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai — with a number 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 Principle Ventures that very same 12 months.
Considered one of Context.ai’s flagship merchandise was a dashboard prospects may use to dig into the info generated by a mannequin and work out 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 based mostly on topic.
“The phrase that I all the time hear is that ‘my mannequin is a black field,’” Scott-Inexperienced advised DailyTech in a 2023 interview. “We’ve spoken to a whole lot of builders who’re constructing [models], they usually have a extremely constant set of issues. These 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 staff as of August 2023. It’s unclear how massive the workforce is in the present day, and whether or not each staffer might be supplied a job at OpenAI.
In a publish on X, Scott-Inexperienced stated that he and Gamble might be creating “the instruments builders must 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.”
