Combining OpenPipes tools with CoreWeaves high-performance cloud infrastructure will give developers an added advantage in building large-scale smart systems, said Brian Venturo, co-founder of CoreWeave.
However, the financial terms have not been disclosed. Previously, in March 2024, OpenPipe - based in Seattle, raised $6.7 million in seed capital from Costanoa Ventures, Y Combinator and many individual investors. Among them, there are Google DeepMind logos Kilpatrick and co-founder GitHub Tom Preston-Werner.
The deal follows CoreWeave's expansion strategy, following a sale of AI Weights and Biases in March. OpenPipe currently owns an open source toolkit (agent reinforcement trainer) for training AI agents, which requires large computing resources.
The merger helps CoreWeave both add technology and expand its customer base from leading AI laboratories such as OpenAI to smaller businesses.
More and more AI startups are pursuing a blend model to fine-tune the model according to customers' specific needs. With this deal, the OpenPipe team will join CoreWeave and all OpenPipe customers will also be switched to use CoreWeave services.
