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OpenAI announced today that it has acquired Rockset, a company known for its real-time analytics database capabilities. Although the financial details of the deal haven’t been revealed, OpenAI will integrate Rockset’s advanced indexing and querying technology to enhance its retrieval infrastructure across various products. Additionally, Rockset’s entire team will join OpenAI as part of this acquisition.
This acquisition represents OpenAI’s second major public purchase, following its acquisition of Global Illumination, Inc. last year. The move comes amidst growing competition in the generative AI space, with rivals like Anthropic releasing powerful new models such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which outperforms OpenAI’s recent GPT-4o.
Founded in 2016, Rockset offers a cloud-based real-time analytics database that helps developers create data-intensive applications for purposes like personalization and IT automation. It continuously ingests and indexes data from sources like Kafka, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and S3, allowing for real-time information retrieval and querying. Rockset’s technology can perform sub-second SQL queries on semi-structured data without needing a predefined schema. Its core technology uses the RocksDB key-value store as a foundation, providing an external secondary index for various databases and streaming platforms, thus accelerating real-time queries and maintaining performance.
With Rockset’s acquisition, OpenAI aims to integrate these “world-class” indexing and querying features into its product lineup, enhancing how its systems retrieve and process information. This will enable OpenAI’s products to deliver quicker and more relevant responses to customer queries, potentially improving enterprise AI applications.
Rockset will empower OpenAI’s tools in transforming data into actionable intelligence, making their offerings more robust for enterprises and developers. The integration should help OpenAI’s models utilize the most current and relevant data, improving their ability to handle specific queries efficiently.
However, it remains to be seen how Rockset’s existing customer relationships will be affected. Rockset has previously worked with major industry players such as Klarna, Meta, Whatnot, and Windward. For now, both companies are yet to provide detailed plans on the integration process, but the goal is to enhance OpenAI’s product capabilities significantly.
“We’re excited to join OpenAI and help users, enterprises, and developers fully leverage their data by bringing powerful retrieval capabilities to AI,” said Venkat Venkataramani, CEO of Rockset.