Acqui hires feel like they stayed here: the team behind Alex, a popular tool that enables programmers to make use of AI models in the Apple Xcode program apartments, joins OpenAi.
IN post At X, the founding father of Alex, Daniel Edrisian, said that the startup team joins the Division Codex Division Openai, which builds the company’s AI coding agent.
Y-combinator-backed Alex was founded in 2024 And he tried to integrate the AI models from Xcode. At the starting of this 12 months, Apple updated XCODE so that users affect ChatgPT and other AI models without the need for external tools. Edrisian didn’t mention whether it was the reason why his startup team joined OpeniAi.
“When we started, Xcode did not have artificial intelligence. Building the” Cursor for Xcode “sounded crazy, but we still managed to do it. And over time, we built the best agent encoding iOS and macOS applications, “wrote Edrisian in his post.
In the post to Alex blogThe startup said that it is going to proceed to operate existing users, although the application will not be downloaded after October 1. The company noticed that the team does not add latest functions to the tool, but will keep the product, if current users use it.
The list of Alexa’s combinators notes that the startup had three people working on the coding tool. It is not clear whether all these employees join OpenAI.
We asked Opeli to comment and update the story if we hear.
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In the past, Opeli made several similar “acquisitions”, employing only a team behind the startup, and not buying the whole company. At the starting of this week, the company said that it purchased the statistics of the product testing startup for $ 1.1 billion.