OpenAI Buys Small Software Firm to Improve Codex
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has bought a very small software developer. The purchase is meant to help improve Codex, its AI tool for writing computer code. The headline gives few details about the size or price of the deal.
Quick glossaryOpenAI, Codex, Acquisition
- OpenAI
- The US AI company best known for making ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions and writes text.
- Codex
- An AI tool that helps people write, check and fix computer code by understanding plain instructions in everyday language.
- Acquisition
- When one company buys another, it takes over that firm's staff, products and everything it owns.
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