AI unicorn Mercor acquires Deeptune after founder Brendan Foody backed the startup | Fortune

Mercor acquires Deeptune to build AI training simulators, signaling where the real money in AI infrastructure…

Mercor ($10B AI platform) acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulation environments where AI agents practice enterprise software (Salesforce, CRM) before real-world deployment. The deal confirms that agentic AI training infrastructure—specifically simulation sandboxes—is becoming the critical bottleneck as market shifts from text generation to autonomous enterprise task automation at scale.