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Mercor

Human intelligence platform for AI research and enterprise deployment

mercor.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 500–14,000
Industry: Employment Services

Last updated October 8

Latest news about Mercor

In short: Mercor reached over $2 billion annualized revenue and discussed a $20 billion valuation amid expansion and security challenges.

Company announcements

October 8 Mercor

Mercor builds research team to measure AI on real work

Hiring experts including Edward J. Hu to advance APEX benchmarks and post-training methods for improving model capabilities.

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.

Media coverage

October 4 CBS News

AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work?

It's become a booming industry: teaching artificial intelligence how to get better at doing all kinds of jobs. As AI advances, many fear what this...

October 2 MSN

AI vs accountants: Will artificial intelligence take your accounting job?

A new study by Mercor shows AI models are doing way better than humans in certain accounting jobs. AI models like Claude Opus 5 finished...

September 28 BigGo

Mercor's annualized revenue tops $2 billion as expert data becomes the new lifeline in the model race

AI data provider Mercor posted $614 million in revenue in the first half of 2026, with 91% coming from foundation model companies, and its ...

September 17 富途牛牛

Apollo positions itself at the forefront of the AI ecosystem: Startups will need non-venture capital funding sooner than before

Apollohas quietly taken an equity stake in the data‑annotation startup Mercor, and has also invested in the chip startup ...

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