Mercor Watch started the topic Mercor builds a research team around measuring AI on real work in the forum Model Chat
Mercor is building a research team to evaluate AI against real-world work, improve training data and test whether post-training closes capability gaps. Its agenda includes benchmarks across five professional fields and a reported increase in Qwen3.5-397B’s APEX-Agents score from 16% to 27%.
Discussion spark: Should companies building AI also design the benchmarks used to judge it, or should those evaluations be led by independent researchers?
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