Osmosis
Forward-deployed reinforcement learning for AI agents
Osmosis (YC W25) is a post-training platform that fine-tunes models with reinforcement learning so companies' agents beat foundation models on specific tasks in performance, cost, and latency. Founded by Kasey Zhang and ex-TikTok tech lead Andy Lyu.
Angel investors include Paul Graham and Guillermo Rauch
| Website | osmosis.ai |
|---|---|
| Domains | Machine Learning |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Team size | 1-10 |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Funding | Seed, $7M (CRV, Audacious Ventures, YC) |
| Founders | Kasey Zhang, Andy Lyu |
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