OpenAI Buys AI Financial Planning Startup Hiro

OpenAI has acquired Hiro Finance, a startup offering AI-powered financial planning tools. The deal's financial terms were not disclosed. Hiro's roughly 10-person team will join OpenAI, while its service will shut down April 20 and user data deleted May 15. It remains unclear if Hiro's features will appear in ChatGPT, as OpenAI is currently prioritizing enterprise offerings over consumer tools. The acquisition likely aims to bolster OpenAI's financial professional tools, which already include a ChatGPT plugin for Excel and connectors for data sources like S&P Global and FactSet.