🚀OpenAI's $1.1B Statsig Grab: AI's Boldest Power Move!

PLUS: ElevenLabs Hits 2M Agents, Rebrands for Scale

September 04, 2025

✨ Morning, AI Enthusiasts

In this issue: OpenAI makes its boldest move yet with a $1.1B acquisition, ElevenLabs rebrands to expand beyond voice, Notion turns databases into true workflow hubs, and Perplexity launches a global student assistant. Big shifts are underway across AI apps, agents, and platforms — here’s what you need to know.

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OPENAI

OpenAI has made its biggest acquisition yet, buying product experimentation startup Statsig in an all-stock deal worth $1.1 billion.

The details:

  • New CTO → Statsig founder Vijaye Raji becomes OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer of Applications, overseeing ChatGPT and Codex product engineering.

  • Applications Leadership → Raji will report to CEO Fidji Simo, bringing experience from Meta and scaling enterprise products.

  • Statsig’s Platform → Known for A/B testing, feature flagging, and real-time decisioning, Statsig was already an OpenAI customer.

  • Team Transition → All 150 Statsig employees join OpenAI, though the startup will keep operating independently from Seattle.

Why it matters:
This move bolsters OpenAI's applications division, enhancing its ability to compete with Google Gemini, Anthropic, and Meta in developing safe, scalable AI applications, as ChatGPT surpasses 700M weekly active users.

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ELEVENLABS

ElevenLabs has renamed Conversational AI to Agents, positioning it as a full platform for building, launching, and monitoring multimodal AI assistants.

The details:

  • 2M+ agents created, powering 33M+ conversations

  • Enterprise workflows: support, lead gen, outbound calls, L&D

  • Also used for NPCs in games, personal tutors, assistants

  • Connects to knowledge bases, tools, and telephony

Why it matters:
The rebrand signals ElevenLabs’ ambition to move beyond voice toward multimodal, action-taking agents that scale across business, gaming, and personal productivity.

NOTION

Notion just rolled out one of its biggest database updates yet turning databases into true all-in-one workflow hubs.

The details:

  • Multi-Source Databases → Combine multiple sources (like accounts, contracts, projects) into a single database. No more juggling separate tables.

  • Linked Views Inside → Add linked views directly within databases to reference related data (tasks, meetings, notes) without duplicating.

Why it matters:
This makes Notion far more powerful for CRMs, project tracking, and knowledge management bringing all your data into one unified, relational hub.

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PERPLEXITY

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Perplexity AI has rolled out Comet, a global student-focused AI assistant designed to simplify academic life.

The details:

  • Schedule Management → Organize classes, deadlines, and study sessions with ease.

  • Textbook Ordering → Find and purchase required materials directly through Comet.

  • Study Mode → Prepare for exams using summaries, flashcards, and personalized learning plans.

Why it matters:
With Comet now available worldwide, students gain an all-in-one academic copilot — helping them stay organized, access resources, and study smarter.

AI CREATIVITY

🍍Create Hyper-Realistic Fruit-Beach Scenes with Midjourney V7

Transform ordinary fruit into stunning tropical scenes with Midjourney V7’s Omni Reference. Carve fruits like oranges and pineapples into realistic, miniature beaches featuring palm trees, waves, and sunbathers, perfect for social media.

Step-by-step:

  1. Open Midjourney V7 and use Omni Reference (-ow 50) to anchor fruit texture.

  2. Try prompts like “A tropical paradise carved inside a pineapple half, ultra-detailed, macro style.”

  3. Add details: tiny figures, striped umbrellas, boats, and reflective water.

  4. Use lighting cues like “golden-hour glow” or “dreamy depth of field.”

  5. For motion, add words like “sway, ripple, glide” for looping videos.

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AI HEALTH

This week’s issue explores lightning-fast heart diagnostics, leaner imaging, smarter EMRs, and AI triage breakthroughs.

The details:

  • AI Stethoscope: Detects heart failure, AFib & valve disease in just 15 seconds

  • UCSD Imaging AI: 20Ă— less data, 10–20% more accuracy across 11 tasks

  • KISS + Sunrise EMR: AI charts that predict kidney risk in ICUs

  • Chiang Mai Model: Smarter triage, doubles accuracy for ICU admissions

  • DERM (NHS): AI skin cancer trial with phone + dermoscopic lens

Why it matters:
From GP clinics to emergency rooms, AI is shrinking diagnosis times, cutting data costs, and reshaping frontline care.

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