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Remote marketplace for AI talent
mercor.com- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded year
- 2023
- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 50–6,500
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Latest news about Mercor
In short: Mercor achieved a $10 billion valuation and $1 billion in revenue, but recently faced mass litigation and client pauses following a data breach.
Company announcements
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Mercor shares engineering lessons from scaling payments to $2M daily
The post details five key learnings on ledgers, manual processes, data, observability, and controls, plus shipped features and future builds. It invites engineers to join.
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Mercor runs GPT-5.5 on APEX benchmarks
It tops APEX-Agents leaderboard in investment banking and consulting, ranks 2nd in corporate law. It places 3rd on APEX-SWE at 40.8% Pass@1.
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Mercor opens London office
They hire Strategic Project Leads for the London team to stay close to AI experts and customers.
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Mercor announces Claude Opus 4.7 crosses 50% on APEX-Agents
It ranks 3rd overall at 33.9% Pass@1 and tops investment banking at 37.2%. Opus 4.7 uses roughly 2x tokens of predecessor.
Media coverage
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AI startup Mercor faces mass litigation following data breach - report
In early April, extortion-hacker group Lapsus$ took credit for hacking Mercor, claiming to have stolen four terabytes of data.
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Workers Sue $10 Billion AI Startup for Collecting and Exposing Personal Data
Training artificial-intelligence models demands massive amounts of fresh data. Mercor, a $10 billion startup that hires contractors to provide AI training feedback, is among those...
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Mercor Investors Celebrate $10 Billion Valuation Following Landmark Funding Round
We’ve seen some absolutely wild developments, and it looks like the money is following fast. This article is all about Mercor ...
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Mercor's 23-Year-Old Billionaire Founders Grapple With Employee Fraud And North Korean Infiltration
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September. Now it's confronting a wave...
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