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Mercor

Human intelligence platform for AI research and development

mercor.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 200–15,000
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Mercor

In short: Mercor reached a $10 billion valuation and a $2 billion revenue run rate as it expanded its AI benchmarking and training operations.

Company announcements

July 9 Mercor

Mercor acquires Deeptune for building AI training environments

Deeptune creates realistic training environments for reinforcement learning, and its team joins Mercor in NYC.

June 25 Mercor

Mercor's new CFO Kevin Shiau built Tesla Energy

He spent eight years at Tesla, growing it to a $13B business, and now leads finance at Mercor.

May 1 Mercor

Mercor shares engineering lessons from scaling payments to $2M daily

The post details five key learnings on ledgers, manual processes, data, observability, and controls, plus shipped features and future builds. It invites engineers to join.

April 25 Mercor

Mercor runs GPT-5.5 on APEX benchmarks

It tops APEX-Agents leaderboard in investment banking and consulting, ranks 2nd in corporate law. It places 3rd on APEX-SWE at 40.8% Pass@1.

Media coverage

September 9 MSN

'Workers are treated like cattle': These 20-something Peter Thiel proteges run a $10B company that hires experts to train their own AI replacements

Would you work for 22-year-olds who envision the future of white-collar work without humans?

August 26 TechCrunch

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others | TechCrunch

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.

August 19 The Information

Nvidia Discusses Funding Its AI Data Supplier Mercor at a $20 Billion Valuation — The Information

Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor, a data labeling provider that helps the chip designer develop its open-source AI models, according to a person...

August 6 Techmeme

Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs

Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government...

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