In a striking example of AI eating the world, three-year-old startup Mercor has reached a staggering $2 billion valuation by serving as the ultimate middleman in the data gold rush. The platform connects elite AI labs—including OpenAI and Anthropic—with top-tier human experts from institutions like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and white-shoe law firms.
These highly paid professionals are being hired for up to $200 an hour to do something crucial and slightly ironic: share their industry expertise to train the very AI models that could eventually automate their former employers.
This developing trend highlights a new, lucrative sector of the gig economy where human knowledge transfer is the primary currency, accelerating the shift toward AGI while simultaneously compensating the experts whose roles are most at risk of obsolescence.
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