Databricks Acquires Quotient AI to Power AI Agent Evaluations

Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML

July 4, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Datadog announced it has acquired Adaptive ML, a frontier AI startup focused on helping enterprises build, own, and deploy specialized agents and models. Adaptive ML’s Adaptive Engine platform enables fine-tuning of open models with reinforcement learning and synthetic data, plus model evaluation using custom AI judges and A/B testing, with production signals fed back into training.

OpenTeams Acquires Quansight's AI Consulting Division

May 27, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

OpenTeams has acquired Quansight's Consulting Division, including its core engineering team, to accelerate development and delivery of open source AI systems for enterprises and government agencies. Quansight will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (Quansight PBC) to focus on sustaining open source communities, while key Quansight leaders (including former CTO Dharhas Pothina) move to OpenTeams to support product and technical growth.

AnswerRocket Acquires Cognitive Spark

April 22, 2025

Professional Services

AnswerRocket has acquired Cognitive Spark, a management consulting firm specializing in advanced data science and machine learning, to strengthen its agentic AI and enterprise analytics capabilities. The Cognitive Spark team will join AnswerRocket (Andrew Sweet, Cognitive Spark CEO, becomes VP, Enterprise AI Solutions), expanding AnswerRocket’s consulting practice and data readiness, model development, and automated analytics capabilities for enterprise clients.

DataRobot Acquires Agnostiq

February 10, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

DataRobot has acquired Agnostiq, the developer of the open-source distributed computing platform Covalent, to accelerate development and deployment of agentic AI applications through advanced compute orchestration and optimization. The acquisition brings Covalent's multi-cloud, multi-infrastructure orchestration capabilities and open-source community into DataRobot to reduce AI infrastructure complexity and costs and enable scalable agentic AI across heterogeneous compute environments.

Virtual Technologies Group Acquires Quotient, Inc.

June 20, 2024

IT Services

Virtual Technologies Group (VTG), with strategic capital from Jacmel Partners and financing from Brightwood Capital Advisors, has acquired Quotient, Inc., a provider of systems integration, full‑stack software development, cybersecurity and related IT services to U.S. federal agencies. Quotient will operate as a subsidiary of VTG as the combined company expands VTG's government contracting capabilities and broadens its IT managed and professional services offering to a nationwide customer base.

Qlik Acquires CrunchBot and Crunch Data

January 22, 2019

AI & Machine Learning

Qlik has acquired the CrunchBot AI analytics bot and the team from Crunch Data to expand conversational analytics and augmented intelligence within Qlik Sense and collaboration platforms. The purchase brings CrunchBot's natural-language query and NLG capabilities plus Crunch Data's AI/solution development specialists into Qlik's product and customer-success organization to drive analytics adoption and data literacy.