"While many of CoreWeave's biggest customers include leading AI labs such as OpenAI, the company is also trying to appeal to smaller enterprises. 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's performance on a specific task; the idea with these enterprise product is to train AI agents specifically for a company's needs."
"CoreWeave and OpenPipe did not disclose the terms of the deal. In March 2024, the Seattle-based OpenPipe raised a $6.7 million seed round, with backers including Costanoa Ventures, Y Combinator, Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick, GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, and the co-creator of GitHub Copilot Alex Graveley. The deal marks CoreWeave's latest attempt to expand down the stack, following its acquisition of the AI developer platform, Weights & Biases, in March."
CoreWeave struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a two-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents using reinforcement learning. OpenPipe raised a $6.7 million seed round in March 2024 with investors including Costanoa Ventures, Y Combinator, and notable AI figures. OpenPipe maintains an open-source toolkit called ART (agent reinforcement trainer) for building AI agents. CoreWeave previously acquired Weights & Biases and serves major AI labs while also courting smaller enterprises. Reinforcement learning improves model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks by rewarding correct responses and enabling customer-specific agent training. The acquisition positions CoreWeave to provide the compute and tooling needed to train and offer enterprise AI agent services.
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