The Technology team represented Adaptive ML on its acquisition by Datadog, Inc., the leading AI-powered observability and security platform, enabling enterprises to build, own, and deploy their own specialized agents and models. Adaptive ML will join Datadog AI Research, accelerating Datadog’s investment and research efforts around world models and agentic LLM post-training for observability. Datadog AI Research focuses on fundamental technical problems and collaborates with Datadog’s product and engineering teams to translate research advances into products.

Adaptive ML is a frontier AI startup developing the world’s first Reinforcement Learning Operations (RLOps) platform.

The Goodwin team was led by Anthony McCusker, Dane Patterson, Justin Smith, Steve Wheeler, Monica Devlin, Jared Gheen, Ora Grinberg, Garrett Gaughan, Monica Patel, Dasol Lee, James Oh, Anne-Charlotte Rivière, Marie Fillon, Marie-Laure Bruneel, Johann Gandilhon, Kevin Liu, Isabelle Greenblatt-Gunning, Nina Ngo, Amanda White, Curtis McCluskey, Jacqueline Klosek, Ce Li, Justin Pierce, Sofia Anna Polishchuk, Simone Waterbury, and Aoife Devereux.

For more information on the deal, please read the press release.