Product development and analytics providers Amplitude and Statsig have gone from competitors to partners, but the arrangement is already raising questions about what customers are actually getting. Under a partnership announced in May 2026, Amplitude will take over the Statsig brand and customer base, while the original Statsig team will continue at OpenAI following OpenAI’s $1.1 billion acquisition of the company last year. That leaves Amplitude managing the platform, roadmap, and support for a product whose creators now work somewhere else. For customers who adopted Statsig because of its rapid pace of innovation, that distinction matters. Statsig became one of the most closely watched experimentation platforms in the AI era because of its warehouse native architecture and strong adoption among AI-focused companies. The platform gained traction by helping teams test features, manage rollouts, and run experiments directly in environments such as Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks.…