Rubrik acquires predibase to accelerate the adoption of AI agents

The Cybersecurity Company of data Rubrik announced on Wednesday its intention to acquire Predibase. Predibase is a startup supported by a company that helps companies train and refine the Open Source models to personalize them according to their needs. Rubrik is the last company to make an acquisition in order to stimulate the adoption of AI agents of the company.

The conditions of the agreement were not disclosed, although CNBC indicated that the agreement was between $ 100 million and $ 500 millionAn important range. Rubrik refused to comment on the size of the agreement.

Predibase was founded in 2021 by Devvret Rishi, current CEO; Piero Molino, current director of science; and Travis Addair, CTO current. The company has raised more than $ 28 million in venture capital of investors, notably Felicis, Greylock and Sancus Ventures, among others.

The integration of Predibase will allow Rubrik users to speed up the construction of AIA agents via the foundation of Amazon, Azure Openai and Google Agentspace, according to a press release.

“When the capacities (of Predibase) are associated with secure data platforms such as those of Rubrik, they can be transformators, helping to guarantee powers of responsible and impactful confidence data”, Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Rubrik, Written in a blog article on the agreement. “Like Rubrik has simplified access to secure data and governed for AI, Predibase solves performance and cost problems concerning the deployment of important language models for agental and other AI applications.”

Rubrik is only one in a growing list of companies that make acquisitions to strengthen their technological stack for the creation of AI agents.

Salesforce acquired a data management company Informitica for $ 8 billion in May. Crunchy data acquired by snowflakes To strengthen its AI agent offers in early June, and Collibra acquired Raito For similar reasons a few days later.

Rubrik was founded in 2014 and raised more than $ 1.6 billion in venture capital of Khosla Ventures, IVP and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others, before others become public in April 2024.