{"id":148734,"date":"2025-10-28T01:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:28:06","slug":"exclusive-mercor-the-ai-startup-fueling-chatgpts-expertise-is-now-valued-at-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148734\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Mercor, the AI Startup Fueling ChatGPT\u2019s Expertise, Is Now Valued at $10 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Mercor, a startup that has become a critical component in the ecosystem improving top AI models, finalized a new funding deal that would value the company at $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">That is <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ai-recruiting-startup-mercor-rockets-to-2-billion-valuation-9698dbdc?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">five times the value<\/a> the company had in February before it pivoted to one of the more lucrative arenas in the artificial-intelligence boom: hiring thousands of white-collar professionals to train the very machines that could one day replace and augment their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercor, a startup that has become a critical component in the ecosystem improving top AI models, finalized a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[87487,291,26638,289,83888,67210,290,87488,41573,1096,41570,13782,41560,41565,18,41571,41567,3334,5568,83910,19,41586,17,82628,87493,87491,87492,87494,610,9436,44285,9588,83891,87489,87490,26243,82,41580],"class_list":{"0":"post-148734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adarsh-hiremath","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-alexandr-wang","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","14":"tag-artificialintelligence","15":"tag-brendan-foody","16":"tag-ce-industry-news-filter","17":"tag-computer-science","18":"tag-content-types","19":"tag-corporate","20":"tag-corporate-funding","21":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","22":"tag-eire","23":"tag-factiva-filters","24":"tag-funding-rounds","25":"tag-general-news","26":"tag-generative-ai","27":"tag-humanities","28":"tag-ie","29":"tag-industrial-news","30":"tag-ireland","31":"tag-kwexclusive","32":"tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003054480","33":"tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003054480","34":"tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003054480","35":"tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003054480","36":"tag-machine-learning","37":"tag-political","38":"tag-political-general-news","39":"tag-sciences","40":"tag-sciences-humanities","41":"tag-sundeep-jain","42":"tag-surya-midha","43":"tag-synd","44":"tag-technology","45":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}