{"id":1480,"date":"2025-06-27T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openai-hires-team-behind-ai-recommendation-startup-crossing-minds\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:59:49","slug":"openai-hires-team-behind-ai-recommendation-startup-crossing-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openai-hires-team-behind-ai-recommendation-startup-crossing-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI hires team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses, said on Thursday that its team is joining OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The startup was backed by Index Ventures, Shopify, Plug and Play, and Radical Ventures, and had raised more than $13.5 million across multiple rounds, according to Crunchbase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crossing Minds largely worked with e-commerce companies to improve their personalization and recommendation systems. The company claims it studies customers&rsquo; on-site behavior data to gather insights on their shopping preferences without compromising privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;Joining OpenAI allows us to bring our work &mdash; and our values &mdash; into a mission we deeply respect: to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We&rsquo;re thrilled to bring our experience and energy to a team that&rsquo;s setting the direction for the future of AI. We&rsquo;re excited to learn, to contribute, and to help shape what&rsquo;s next,&rdquo; the startup&rsquo;s co-founders wrote in a post on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexandre Robicquet, one of the co-founders, has updated his bio on LinkedIn, which now reads &ldquo;Research, Post-training and Agents at OpenAI.&rdquo; It is not clear if all of Crossing Minds&rsquo; team is joining OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crossing Minds&rsquo; website also says that the company won&rsquo;t take up any more clients. Per its archived &ldquo;About&rdquo; page, Crossing Mind previously said it was trusted by Intuit, Anthropic, Udacity and Chanel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI companies have built a plethora of tools to help customers shop. Google and Perplexity have launched AI features to improve recommendations, while startups like Daydream have received massive investments to launch AI shopping assistants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, OpenAI updated ChatGPT to provide recommendations, images, and reviews for items its users ask questions about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI didn&rsquo;t immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>OpenAI hires team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses, said on Thursday that its team is joining OpenAI. The startup was backed by Index Ventures, Shopify, Plug and Play, and Radical Ventures, and had raised more than $13.5 million across multiple rounds, according to Crunchbase. Crossing Minds largely worked with e-commerce companies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openai-hires-team-behind-ai-recommendation-startup-crossing-minds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;OpenAI hires team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}