{"id":41584,"date":"2025-09-03T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/41584\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:27:09","slug":"coreweave-acquires-agent-training-startup-openpipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/41584\/","title":{"rendered":"CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/openpipe.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OpenPipe<\/a>, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,\u201d said\u00a0Brian Venturo, co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. \u201cBy combining OpenPipe\u2019s advanced self-learning tools with CoreWeave\u2019s high-performance AI cloud, we\u2019re expanding our platform to give developers at AI labs and beyond an important advantage in building scalable intelligent systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CoreWeave and OpenPipe did not disclose the terms of the deal. In March 2024, the Seattle-based OpenPipe <a href=\"https:\/\/openpipe.ai\/blog\/announcing-6-7m-seed-raise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">raised<\/a> a $6.7 million seed round, with backers including Costanoa Ventures, Y Combinator, Google DeepMind\u2019s Logan Kilpatrick, GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, and co-creator of GitHub Copilot Alex Graveley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal marks CoreWeave\u2019s latest attempt to expand down the stack, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/04\/coreweave-acquires-ai-developer-platform-weights-biases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following its acquisition of the AI developer platform Weights &amp; Biases<\/a> in March. OpenPipe develops a popular open source toolkit for creating AI agents called ART\u00a0(agent reinforcement trainer). While many of CoreWeave\u2019s biggest customers include leading AI labs such as OpenAI, the company is also trying to appeal to smaller enterprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A growing number of AI labs and startups are building out enterprise products around reinforcement learning, which involves rewarding AI models for correct responses. Reinforcement learning has proven a strong way to improve an AI model\u2019s performance on a specific task; the idea with these enterprise products is to train AI agents specifically for a company\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This kind of customer-specific training requires a lot of computing resources, and by acquiring OpenPipe, CoreWeave hopes to both power and offer such services. OpenPipe\u2019s team will be joining CoreWeave, and customers of OpenPipe will become CoreWeave customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,8135,289,290,3252,18,4500,19,17,31526,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-41584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-agents","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-coreweave","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-exclusive","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-reinforcement-learning","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}