OpenAI’s first acquisition is an enterprise computing startup

According to the company, OpenAI acquired Rockset, an enterprise analytics startup, to “power our search infrastructure across products.” Friday blog post.

This acquisition is the first for OpenAI in which the company will integrate both the company’s technology and its advocacy team says Bloomberg. The two companies did not share the terms of the acquisition. To date, Rockset has raised $105 million in funding.

“Rockset infrastructure enables companies to transform data into actionable intelligence,” OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says in a statement. “We are excited to deliver these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset foundations with OpenAI products.”

“Rockset will become part of OpenAI and power the search infrastructure supporting the OpenAI product suite,” says Rockset CEO Venkat Venkataramani in a Rockset blog post. “We will help OpenAI solve the difficult database problems that AI applications face at massive scale.”

Venkataramani says existing Rockset customers will not experience an “immediate change” and that the company will gradually migrate them off the platform. “Some” Rockset team members will migrate to OpenAI, Bloomberg says.