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OpenAI acquires team behind Multi, formerly Remotion, startup focused on screensharing and collaboration
Founded originally under the name Remotion in 2019, Multi was originally focused on building a kind of Zoom-style videoconferencing app.
Today, sources close to OpenAI have confirmed to VentureBeat it has acquired Multi, formerly Remotion, a five-person startup based in New York City that focuses on screenshare and collaboration technologies for workers using Mac computers. In debuted its initial application in October 2020 for macOS and as Fast Company described it at the time, the app was a “lighter-weight” video conferencing alternative to Zoom or Microsoft Teams, with a dock of contacts appearing off to the side rather than in a full screen or even tiled view, and a persistent display of your frequent contacts/team members and status indicators showing if they were open to a quick 1×1 or group chat. Credit: MultiIntriguingly, at the time, the company stated “chatbots are not the future” and linked to a blog post by Github researcher Amelia Wattenberger explaining reasons why the current, largely bare bones chat interfaces for LLMs such as ChatGPT did not provide enough context or cues for how the user should interact with them, nor enough information on what the AI was doing.
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