DataRobot, a provider of AI that makes business sense, announced it has acquired Agnostiq and its open-source distributed computing platform Covalent. With this acquisition, DataRobot continues accelerating agentic AI application development with advanced computing orchestration and optimization.
Based on a recent study, organizations struggle to translate business needs into agentic AI applications and manage these applications across fragmented tooling and environments, which leads to higher costs, inefficiencies, and slower innovation. Businesses need the flexibility to deploy agentic AI across multiple infrastructures and computing environments and the ability to dynamically manage agents based on availability, cost, and performance.
This deal will rapidly advance agentic AI development with:
1.) Heterogeneous compute orchestration to accelerate AI deployment.
2.) Deploy, scale, and manage AI workloads across compute environments in multi-cloud, on-premises, and hybrid configurations, including CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.
3.) Orchestrate across clusters like run:ai, Slurm, Nomad, and K8s to execute agentic AI applications.
4.) Allocate and burst resources dynamically so infrastructure scales to support business needs with the best price performance.
5.) Reduced AI infrastructure complexity and costs.
6.) Utilize efficient sharing and partitioning of resources and computing to reduce costs for specialized and large-scale AI workloads.
7.) Streamline AI tooling without incurring migration costs through a single platform for building, fine-tuning, and deploying AI and agentic flows.
8.) Configure rules to set thresholds for cost and latency and create a queue of priorities to optimize price and performance tailored to business use cases.
9.) Open and agnostic approach for greater tool and infrastructure flexibility.
10.) Leverage an established open-source community of thousands of global users.
11.) Avoid vendor lock-in, adapt infrastructure, and scale efficiently.
12.) Integrate with existing infrastructure to build increasingly autonomous multi-modal agents.
Agnostiq develops Covalent, which is a leading AI infrastructure management and compute orchestration platform. Covalent enables organizations to scale AI deployments with dynamic resource allocation easily, save costs through efficient use of infrastructure, and accelerate AI application development with user-friendly infrastructure abstraction. And with 140,000+ downloads, Covalent is trusted by leading teams and organizations worldwide.
KEY QUOTES:
“Businesses are eager to move into an era of agentic AI, but are limited by siloed infrastructure and tooling. This operational complexity is not sustainable or scalable. By integrating this acquisition, we are empowering AI teams to intelligently and cost-effectively develop and manage agentic AI across compute environments — delivering tangible results for business.”
- Debanjan Saha, Chief Executive Officer, DataRobot
“With Covalent’s advanced compute orchestration, we’re thrilled to become part of DataRobot’s journey, working together to help our communities rapidly build and deploy groundbreaking AI solutions with seamless scalability and efficiency.”
- Oktay Goktas, Chief Executive Officer, Agnostiq
