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Mercor

Platform connecting AI experts with work

mercor.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 200–9,500
Industry: Employment Services

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Latest news about Mercor

In short: Mercor reached a $10B valuation and $2B in annual revenue while managing a major data breach and releasing frontier AI benchmarks.

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

July 29 DiarioBitcoin

Mercor would have suffered a breach and they offer biometric data of all its users - DiarioBitcoin

A threat intelligence publication states that a confirmed breach at Mercor exposed biometric data, personal information, source code and cloud buckets...

July 21 The Information

Mercor’s Fast Growth Relies on Biggest AI Companies, Documents Show

Mercor, a three-year-old data startup whose army of contractors teaches AI to give better answers, is growing fast but relies heavily on revenue from AI...

July 9 Bloomberg

AI Training Startup Mercor Discusses $20 Billion Valuation

Mercor, a startup that helps improve artificial intelligence models with rich specialized data, is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20 billion valuation, according...

July 9 Fortune

AI unicorn Mercor acquires Deeptune after founder Brendan Foody backed the...

The acquisition comes as Mercor says it reached $2 billion in annual recurring revenue despite a high-profile cybersecurity breach in March.

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