Feeding the machine
According to reports, the vergewritten by josh dzieza & hayden fieldart by kristen radtkefrontier labs like openai and anthropic need vast amounts of data in the race to achieve agi This highlights that this comes at a pretty penny — billions of dollars — and little-known companies like mercor and handshake are cleaning up in this ai hype cycle According to reports, published dec 15, 2025, 12:00 pm gmtlinksharewhenwhen he was 19 years old, brendan foody started mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas Interestingly, it launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one In recent developments, language models reviewed resumes and did the interviewing Interestingly, within months, mercor was bringing in $1 million in annualized revenue and turning a modest profit In recent developments, then, in early 2024, the company scale ai approached mercor with a big request: they needed 1,200 software engineers Interestingly, at the time, scale was one of the only well-known names in the historically back-of-house business of producing ai training data
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