Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc. , a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents.
Key Takeaways
- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 19:28 EDT / JULY 09 2026 AI Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents by Duncan Riley Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.
- 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.
Foody framed the acquisition as a bet on where the bottleneck in model training now sits.
- The purchase lands in the middle of a fundraising push.
Bloomberg reports that Mercor is in early talks to raise at a valuation of about $20 billion, double the $10 billion it commanded in October when it closed a $350 million Series C.
- Contract workers have since filed suit.
Foody told Fortune the incident has not cost Mercor business.
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Stats & Key Facts
- #The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive Brendan Foody wrote a personal angel check into Deeptune's $43 million Series A [...
- #SiliconANGLE UPDATED 19:28 EDT / JULY 09 2026 AI Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents by Duncan Riley Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.
- #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 .
- #Its network of more than 5 million domain experts writes the tasks and the verifiers whether an agent completed them correctly and its APEX benchmarks score model performance across real-world workflows.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 19:28 EDT / JULY 09 2026 AI Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents by Duncan Riley Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor. 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.
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