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Osmosis (YC W25) — Reinforcement learning (RL) for AI agents

Osmosis is a post-training platform that helps companies fine-tune language models using reinforcement learning. We work with fast-growing AI companies to train task/domain-specific models that beat foundation models on performance, cost, and latency.

Osmosis is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Reinforcement Learning (RL) for AI Agents. The founders listed are Kasey Zhang (Founder/CEO), Andy Lyu (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 23, 2025).

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Osmosis

New accelerator entry · 2025-01-23 · the record

Winter 2025
batch
6
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2025
Announced2025-01-23
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size6
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Infrastructure
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://osmosis.ai/
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Osmosis is a post-training platform that helps companies fine-tune language models using reinforcement learning. We work with fast-growing AI companies to train task/domain-specific models that beat foundation models on performance, cost, and latency. Our platform handles compute orchestration, reward modeling, and training run observability as a CLI-based product usable by developers and agents.

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