CoreWeave has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning. Brian Venturo, co-founder of CoreWeave said, “By combining OpenPipe’s advanced self-learning tools with CoreWeave’s high-performance AI cloud, we’re expanding our platform to give developers at AI labs and beyond an important advantage in building scalable intelligent systems.” OpenPipe develops a popular open source toolkit for creating AI agents called ART (agent reinforcement trainer). While many of CoreWeave’s biggest customers include leading AI labs such as OpenAI, the company is also trying to appeal to smaller enterprises. Reinforcement learning has proven a strong way to improve an AI model’s performance on a specific task; the idea with these enterprise products is to train AI agents specifically for a company’s needs. 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’s team will be joining CoreWeave, and customers of OpenPipe will become CoreWeave customers.