December 17, according to The InformationShopify Executives Glen Gates Declaration of accession OpenAI He will head the application platform; in the meantime, Albert Lee, a senior business development manager in Google, will be on board in January to take charge of the acquisition and strategic investment at the corporate level。
OpenAI, which recently promoted the use of ChatGPT as a default portal for user-to-third-party applications, has developed early cooperation with United States retailers, Incacart, Target, etc. The product owner of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, is prioritizing greater personalization, in part through connections to other applications。
Coates joined OpenAI by LinkedIn on Monday, local time. He worked in Shopify for about six years, leading the product development of the electrician core software and leading the process of matching commercial commodity information with AI applications and intelligence, and left Shopify this summer。
On the other hand, OpenAI has hired Albert Lee, a long-standing business developer in Google, to be responsible for M & As and strategic investment。
Lee, who was in charge of the business development of Google Cloud and DeepMind, was involved in the procurement of Google for $5.4 billion, Mandiant, and $2.6 billion for the data analysis company Loker; he will take up his post in January and report to Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar。
Previously, OpenAI had introduced Torben Severson from the Amazon as Global Business Development Manager, focusing on strategic partnerships, while Lee would focus on M&As。