AI Briefing#mercor
The latest AI and developer news about #mercor, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #mercor, with the original source and a short summary.
The new benchmark features 85 long-horizon tasks across mechanical, electrical, civil, and structural engineering, with the top-performing model reaching a mean score of 48.3%.
The company routed 18 million requests through Vercel AI Gateway in its first 10 days, enabling over 2,000 internal projects and provisioning expert access in seconds.
Analysis of 29 benchmarks against O*NET data shows only 208 of 923 occupations have tasks covered by at least 5 prompts, highlighting a severe gap in measuring AI capabilities for most jobs.
Mercor and SkyRL have released the complete RL training process for a 397B-parameter model's knowledge work agent.
Forbes reported that US AI data companies are selling large-scale training data to Chinese Big Tech firms.
APEX-Accounting evaluated whether AI can repeatedly produce accurate results in accounting tasks.
AI training startup Mercor is pursuing a funding round that would set its valuation at $20 billion, double its valuation from last October.
Bay Area doctors are jumping into AI training gigs paying **$150-200/h**.
Pushed by San Francisco's high cost of living, doctors are taking on side jobs tutoring AI models.
Hacking group Lapsus$ leaked a massive amount of Mercor's operational data, and even after ransom payment, a serious security incident occurred in which data samples were publicly released.
Meta has indefinitely suspended its collaboration with data contractor Mercor after a data breach incident.
AI hiring startup **Mercor** confirmed damage from a cyberattack stemming from a supply chain attack on the open-source **LiteLLM** project.