AI Company "Chat GPT" Expands Its Operations

OpenAI announced today, Wednesday, that it has acquired the digital products company "Global Illumination," marking its first known acquisition in the field of artificial intelligence. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. Global Illumination, based in New York, was founded in 2021 by Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon, and Joey Flynn, all of whom previously worked at Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms. Recently, Global Illumination has been working on open-source technology related to online game production. Dimson is credited with writing some of the original code for Instagram's content ranking algorithms, according to Dimson's personal website.