Piotr Niedźwiedź, CEO/CTO and founder of neptune.ai
I’m excited to share that we’ve entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by OpenAI, subject to closing conditions. We are thrilled to join the OpenAI team and help their AI researchers build better models faster.
We started in 2017, when the pivotal transformer paper came out. And from then until today, we have focused on helping people who build ML models during the iterative, messy, and unpredictable phase of model training.
I love how Szymon Sidor, who has spent nearly a decade at OpenAI, explained the essence of Neptune back to me, perhaps capturing it better than I ever could:
“OpenAI research converts compute into understanding. At the interface of compute and understanding are metrics. Neptune is a metrics dashboard company.”
We’ve worked closely with OpenAI to create the metrics dashboard that helps teams building foundation models. With this transaction, we’ll be able to work even more closely together and innovate on tools at a whole new level.
Our future with OpenAI
Neptune will join OpenAI and continue to support AI researchers with tools to monitor, debug, and evaluate frontier models. Built on top of Neptune, of course. I am beyond excited to join forces with some of the top research and engineering minds on the path towards AGI.
This is how Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, explains how Neptune will fit in at OpenAI:
“Neptune has built a fast, precise system that allows researchers to analyze complex training workflows. We plan to iterate with them to integrate their tools deep into our training stack to expand our visibility into how models learn.”
We will wind down our external services in the next few months, and are committed to working closely with our customers and users to make this transition as smooth as possible.
What is next
I am truly grateful to our customers, investors, co-founders, and colleagues who have made this journey possible. It was the ride of a lifetime already, yet still I believe this is only the beginning. We are looking forward to working with top AI researchers and supporting OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity.