<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>OpenAI has acquired the team behind the AI startup Crossing Minds, with Crossing Minds confirming the deal without disclosing financial terms.</li><li>Crossing Minds previously raised over $13 million in funding from Shopify Inc., Index Ventures, and other backers. The startup was launched in 2016 by a team including notable AI researcher Sebastian Thrun.</li><li>One of Crossing Minds' co-founders, Alexandre Robicquet, has joined OpenAI to work on AI agents and post-training in the AI development process.</li><li>Before the acquisition, Crossing Minds offered AI-powered product recommendation systems for online retailers and developer tools like embeddings generation and RAGSys for equipping AI applications with retrieval-augmented generation features.</li></ul>

OpenAI hires staff of Shopify-backed AI startup Crossing Minds

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