OpenAI Acquires AI Startup Founded by Former Apple Employees

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops, part of a push by the ChatGPT maker to improve how artificial intelligence tools field tasks on a computer.

Software Applications was founded in 2023 by a group of former Apple Inc. employees, some of whom helped create the technology behind the iPhone’s Shortcuts app, which is designed to speed up common functions on the smartphone. As part of the acquisition, OpenAI plans to integrate the startup’s technology into ChatGPT and bring on its entire team of roughly a dozen people. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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