Excited to share that Deeptune is joining Mercor. When we started Deeptune, we believed RL environments would become the defining bottleneck for AI. Over the past two years, we've seen this play out even faster than we expected. Mercor has built the world's leading expert network for AI, making it the obvious place to continue our mission. Together, we'll build the platform that powers the next generation of AI agents. Our entire team is joining Mercor in NYC, and we'll continue building with far greater resources towards the even bigger opportunity ahead. I'm deeply grateful to our customers, investors, and everyone who helped us get here. Most of all, thank you to the Deeptune team. None of this would have been possible without you. We're just getting started.
Read our full announcement: https://www.mercor.com/blog/mercor-to-acquire-deeptune
The pairing makes sense. Mercor has built the human-in-the-loop network; Deeptune has the RL environments to actually train agents within that loop. Together that's the backbone for deploying agentic systems at scale. Good to see this consolidate around real infrastructure needs.
congrats to the Deeptune team. the RL environment bottleneck framing was the right one early, most people were still debating model size when you were already there. curious how the Mercor expert network changes the data flywheel for training environments specifically.
Tim Lupo Brendan Foody It would be amazing if we three worked together! I’ve been following what you’re building, and I love the direction. I'd love to chat about how I can plug in, bring some value to the team, and help accelerate things. Let me know if you guys have 10 minutes to sync sometime soon!
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Wow, congrats Tim!
Woah!! Huge!!!
If Mercor went from $1B to $2B in 4 months without Tim… hard to imagine what they’ll be able to do with him. Congrats Tim Lupo - Mercor just got a huge pickup.
Read more in Fortune: https://fortune.com/2026/07/09/ai-unicorn-mercor-acquires-deeptune-brendan-foody-investor-a16z-openai-anthropic