Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML to Accelerate Specialized AI Agents and Research Capabilities

Datadog Shares Climb After Company Acquires Reinforcement Learning Startup Adaptive ML - Datadog (NASDAQ:

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) shares are trading higher. The company announced it acquired Adaptive ML. * Datadog stock is gaining positive traction. Why is DDOG stock advancing? The Acquisition Adaptive ML is a frontier AI startup developing a Reinforcement Learning Operations platform designed to help enterprises build, own, and deploy their own specialized AI agents and models. The startup will join Datadog AI Research, accelerating the company's research efforts around world models and agentic LLM post-training for observability. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Datadog AI Research focuses on fundamental technical problems and collaborates with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products -- an area where Datadog already invests more than $1 billion annually in R&D. Recent research initiatives include Toto 2.0, as well as products like Bits Investigation, Bits Code and Bits Security Analyst, which have conducted hundreds of thousands of investigations on behalf of customers. "We started Adaptive to give every enterprise the ability to perpetually improve its own AI. With Datadog, and the continuous stream of real-world signals that only a platform operating at this unique reach can provide, we will work directly from the foundation that intelligent agents need to drive exponential productivity gains," said Julien Launay, co-founder and CEO of Adaptive ML. Datadog Shares Edge Higher DDOG Price Action: At the time of publication, Datadog shares are trading 3.65% higher at $269.87, according to data from Benzinga Pro. Image via Shutterstock This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs To add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.

The Future of Autonomous Observability: Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML to Pioneer RLOps

Adaptive ML will join Datadog's AI lab to build frontier AI infrastructure to address cutting-edge research challenges within observability and security Datadog, Inc. today announced it has acquired Adaptive ML, a frontier AI startup developing the world's first Reinforcement Learning Operations (RLOps) platform, enabling enterprises to build, own, and deploy their own specialized agents and models. Adaptive ML will join Datadog AI Research, accelerating Datadog's investment and research efforts around world models and agentic LLM post-training for observability. Datadog AI Research focuses on fundamental technical problems and collaborates with Datadog's product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products. "We started Adaptive to give every enterprise the ability to perpetually improve its own AI. The missing piece was never the algorithm, the hardest part was production scale. With Datadog, and the continuous stream of real-world signals that only a platform operating at this unique reach can provide, we will work directly from the foundation that intelligent agents need to drive exponential productivity gains, reliably and consistently. With Datadog's unmatched access to real-world infrastructure, we can accelerate towards continuous intelligence," said Julien Launay, co-founder and CEO, Adaptive ML. "Our lab is focused on leveraging our data and domain expertise to build specialized agents and models, and to effectively turn our data into first-party intelligence. As we continue to bolster our R&D efforts and better serve our customers, bringing Adaptive ML on board is a natural fit to enhance and augment the work we are already doing within our lab," said Ameet Talwalkar, Datadog's Chief Scientist. As AI continues to intensify the level of complexity software systems are facing on a daily basis, Datadog has invested over $1B in R&D annually -- significantly contributing to the end-to-end observability and security solutions it has delivered to customers. Recently, that includes research initiatives like Toto 2.0, as well as products like Bits Investigation, Bits Code, and Bits Security Analyst, which have already conducted hundreds of thousands of investigations on behalf of customers.