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artificially intelligent @mercor_ai // prev ramp, yc w23, founder (acq.)
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Joined March 2020
scaling is necessary but insufficient in the end, data determines destiny
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it's about time
announcing our vc-backed bot farm to accelerate the dead internet.
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We’ve raised our $350M Series C at a $10B valuation from @felicis, @benchmark, and @generalcatalyst. Just 2 years after starting, Mercor is paying $1.5 million per day to experts in our marketplace. We’re creating a new category of work in the AI economy, where software
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most benchmarks today don't measure model proficiency on realistic tasks. it's time to start *actually* measuring the frontier towards automating economically-valuable work. see the full paper here:
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We present an extended version of the AI Productivity Index (APEX-v1-extended), a benchmark for assessing whether frontier models are capable of performing economically valuable tasks in four...
AI has its PhD and now it’s on the job market. Introducing the AI Productivity Index (APEX), a benchmark that measures how well we’ve automated the most valuable industries in the world. Most benchmarks study abstract capabilities. APEX evaluates model performance on real
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Excited to be working with Max backing companies from the ground up! You’re all in, why isn’t your VC?
Striker Venture Partners (@strikervp) launches today with $165M. Targeting just 10 companies per fund. We back companies pre-revenue, mostly at inception. @airtable. @cribl_io. @reflection_ai. @dynarobotics. Technical Focus: AI. Cybersecurity. Infrastructure Software.
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Mercor (@mercor_ai) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September. One trend
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Just heard I’m getting sued by Scale. Last month, I left Scale to work at Mercor. I know this was frustrating for my old team, and I feel bad about that. When Scale reached out about some files I had in my personal drive, I asked if I could just delete them. But Scale asked that
Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action
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The meteoric rise of @mercor_ai becomes clear once you meet the founders. I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their board and will be working closely with them alongside Sundeep Jain, who brings exceptional marketplace expertise. They’ve quickly established themselves as the
AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI https://t.co/dCdUw0fIjW
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The Windsurf Dynamics: On the need for a social contract, an analysis of the potential payouts / cap table math, what a better outcome might have looked like instead, and why –– maybe? –– the Windsurf founders and board might have actually done the right thing, leaving a graceful
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Mercor (@mercor_ai) is now working with 6 out of the Magnificent 7, all of the top 5 AI labs, and most of the top application layer companies. One trend is common across every customer: we are entering The Era of Evals. RL is becoming so effective that models will be able to
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brex: branded cybertrucks, NYT billboards, lavish events 🤮 ramp: sponsoring tasteful media 😎
Today, we are officially announcing TBPN. We are more than a podcast now. - 5 days a week, 3 hours per day - Streamed live on 𝕏 - Multiple guest call-ins per show - Presented by @tryramp Here’s a vibe reel.
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the USC mafia prevails
won 2nd place + $15k this weekend at the @mercor_ai x @Etched x @cognition_labs hackathon! our team (@spikecodes @JoshVall529 @timobraz and I ) built codeshot, the pixel-perfect AI frontend engineer. 🧵 on our approach & what’s next:
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guerrilla marketing is best when it's free
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y'all aren't ready for the USC mafia
Introducing Mark — a $129 AI bookmark that helps book readers remember everything. 🧵👇 Thread:
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