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CoreWeave Acquired OpenPipe — Kyle Corbitt on Reinforcement Learning & Reliable AI Agents | E150

E150 • Sep 25, 2025 • 22 mins

CoreWeave just announced its acquisition of OpenPipe — a pivotal moment for reinforcement learning and reliable AI agents. Let’s take a step back and watch Kyle Corbitt, Co-founder and CEO of OpenPipe, talk about how reinforcement learning turns prototypes into production-ready systems. In this exclusive Imagine AI Live 25 talk, Kyle explains the “why, when, and how” of RL, walks through a case study of building an email assistant that outperformed frontier models, and shares lessons learned from designing environments and reward functions. With OpenPipe now joining forces with CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, the mission to scale reliable reinforcement learning is accelerating. Read the full announcement here.

Key Points

  • Open Pipe specializes in using reinforcement learning to enhance the reliability of AI agents, particularly for large enterprises.
  • By leveraging a publicly available dataset from Enron, Open Pipe was able to create a realistic training environment for their email assistant agent.
  • Reinforcement learning enabled Open Pipe to significantly improve the performance, cost-efficiency, and response time of their AI models compared to both open and closed alternatives.
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