Airtable Acquired DeepSky (www.airtable.com)

Airtable announced two moves that accelerate its shift to an AI-native, multi-product company: former OpenAI leader David Azose is joining as CTO, and Airtable has acquired DeepSky, an AI “superagent” for complex research and analysis. Azose — who led ChatGPT’s Business Products at OpenAI — brings product and scale experience for user-facing AI, while DeepSky’s team (founders Chris Chang, Forrest Moret, Mark Huang and ~12 employees) will join Airtable and initially continue to operate DeepSky as a standalone product reporting into CEO Howie Liu. DeepSky exemplifies a rising pattern in AI: autonomous, multi-step agents that can decompose open-ended research goals, course-correct over long durations, and synthesize raw information into structured business narratives. Airtable plans two-way integration: DeepSky can seed dynamic Airtable applications (e.g., automated market-intel trackers fed by real-time news) and Airtable users can launch research tasks from within workflows, creating a continuous loop from insight to execution. Combined with Azose’s leadership and DeepSky’s prior work on customizable AI infrastructure (Gradient), the move signals Airtable’s strategy to embed advanced, agentic AI into core workflows—making research-driven automation and app creation more accessible to enterprises and teams.