OpenAI has acquired the team behind InstantDB, a real-time database platform that grew to serve over 17,000 users and power 400,000 applications. The deal, announced on August 22, brings backend infrastructure talent directly into OpenAI’s orbit as the company pushes deeper into developer tools and agent-based workflows. The platform processed roughly 2.5 billion transactions across its lifetime. Instant’s cloud services are being phased out: new signups have already been halted, hosted applications will run until August 31, 2027, and backups will be available until 2028. The acquisition aims to give OpenAI’s AI agents real-time persistent state management capabilities across concurrent operations.
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