#acquisitions

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup focused on AI-powered presentation generation, integrating the team into its ChatGPT product division.

The AI image-generation startup has purchased the personalized astrology app Co-Star, signaling a shift toward standalone software beyond Discord.

Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, a social astrology app with 4.3 million monthly active users and a 24-person team, as the AI lab expands beyond its Discord-based image generator.

Anthropic and Physical Intelligence held acquisition talks this spring, rekindling debate over AI labs' pivot toward embodied reasoning.

Adobe's $250M-plus acquisition of Topaz Labs integrates Emmy-winning video upscaling and image enhancement technology into Creative Cloud and Firefly.

Indian marketing platform MoEngage bought San Francisco startup Aampe for tens of millions to embed autonomous AI agents that personalize customer interactions at the individual level.

SpaceX announces it will acquire the AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion, aiming to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market.

OpenAI is acquiring cloud-execution platform Ona to extend Codex agents' ability to work across hours or days in secure, customer-controlled cloud environments.

Asana's $75M acquisition of Stack AI signals a strategic pivot toward AI-native workplace tools as the work-management platform battles market skepticism.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the developer tools startup whose SDK automation powers API integrations for rival AI labs.

A wave of AI acquisitions by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Databricks is reshaping how founders should think about their companies from day one.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says strong margins and 300% net revenue retention give the company the financial footing to stay solo — for now.