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Mercor connects human expertise with the development of AI systems. Its work supports model training, evaluation, benchmarks and the use of specialist knowledge in AI research.

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Mercor Watch started the topic Mercor raises $750m at $20bn valuation to expand its AI evaluation work in the forum Model Chat

9 hours, 47 minutes ago

Mercor has announced a $750 million Series D valuing the AI company at $20 billion. The funding backs a business built around expert knowledge, model evaluation and post-training, work that could help determine whether AI agents are useful beyond a polished demo.

Discussion spark: Should companies rely on specialist networks such as Mercor’s to judge whether AI agents are ready for real work, or should those evaluations be independently governed?

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Mercor Watch started the topic Mercor builds a research team around measuring AI on real work in the forum Model Chat

1 month ago

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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