Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive Brendan Foody wrote a personal angel check into Deeptune’s $43 million Series A round, which Andreessen Horowitz led in March. Foody told Fortune that the investment was made with a purchase already in mind. “It was in a lot of ways the main motivation, actually,” he said.
Deeptune is based in New York and builds what Chief Executive Tim Lupo calls “training gyms,” reinforcement learning environments that copy the software knowledge workers use every day. An agent drops into a simulated spreadsheet or a Salesforce queue, gets the task wrong and tries again. Nothing it touches is real.
Lupo has likened the setup to a flight simulator. Mercor said the team has recreated hundreds of enterprise applications over the past two years and was already supplying environments to frontier labs, with Mercor among them as a customer.
