Automattic Acquires AI Company ‘WPAI’ – WP Tavern
Automattic has introduced that it has acquired WPAI, an organization specializing in AI-powered instruments for WordPress. Based two years in the past, WPAI has developed modern merchandise like CodeWP (an AI IDE for WordPress builders), AgentWP (an AI agent for WordPress), and WP.Chat (a ChatGPT different for WordPress). No monetary particulars of the deal have been disclosed.
WPAI’s founding members James LePage, Greg Hunt, and Ovidiu “Ovi” Iulian Galatan will be part of Automattic. “Our whole WPAI group is making the transfer to Automattic, and we’ll be integrating our merchandise, knowledge, and instruments into each new and current choices. We couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about what’s forward.”, James LePage shared on Twitter.
Automattic’s announcement post revealed that the founding members will “lead the exploration of utilized AI as an interplay paradigm for WordPress. They’ll be engaged on testing, constructing, and integrating modern AI options into the core ecosystem to redefine how customers and builders work with WordPress.”
As a part of the transition, CodeWP and AgentWP shall be sundown of their present types, the core expertise powering these platforms shall be reimagined and built-in into new choices underneath the Automattic umbrella.
“We anticipate that every one merchandise shall be fully sundown by January ninth, however it’s as much as Automattic on the precise timeline now.”, shared James LePage within the WPAI facebook group. “As we wind down our present merchandise, month-to-month subscriptions will finish with out renewal, and annual subscribers will obtain prorated refunds within the coming weeks.”, he continued.
Whereas many are optimistic concerning the acquisition, some prospects have expressed considerations. Some are frightened that it’s disastrous for the present prospects and they aren’t proud of CodeWP and AgentWP being sundown. However James Lepage has assured that “This transfer permits us to assemble extra assets and construct a way more strong answer. We have been punching manner above our weight class. The agent shall be again!”
Matt Mullenweg shared in his personal blog, “Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They’ve some very cool merchandise together with CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.”
The acquisition comes on the heels of Automattic’s latest buy of Harper, a grammar-checking software tailor-made for builders. Harper’s founder, Elijah Potter, additionally joined Automattic as a Code Wrangler.
