Bespoke Labs
Data curation and RL environment recipes from ex-Google DeepMind researchers
Bespoke Labs builds tools and curated datasets for post-training, including the Curator open-source library and RL environment work for coding and enterprise tasks. Co-founded by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy (ex-Google DeepMind) and Alex Dimakis, it co-created the OpenThoughts reasoning datasets.
OpenThoughts open reasoning datasets
| Website | bespokelabs.ai |
|---|---|
| Domains | Coding, Machine Learning |
| Location | Mountain View, Menlo Park, Bangalore, San Francisco |
| Team size | 11-25 |
| Funding | ~$40M (reported) |
| Founders | Mahesh Sathiamoorthy @madiator, Alex Dimakis @AlexGDimakis |
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