Mercor, a fast-growing Silicon Valley startup, is supplying premium data to AI companies, operating within the data supply chains of Meta and Scale AI.
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Updated Aug 1
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What happened
Mercor, a fast-growing Silicon Valley startup, is supplying premium data to AI companies, operating within the data supply chains of Meta and Scale AI.
Who's involved
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The entities involved
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Mercor
legal entity in Latvia
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Meta
American technology company
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Scale AI
American multinational data annotation company
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OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research organization
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