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The four-year-old data-labeling startup grew fivefold in eight months, trailing Mercor's $2B and Handshake's $1B in the same market.
Mercor doubled from $1B to $2B in four months. Anthropic added $17B in run rate in under two. The pattern is now the story.
The UC Berkeley-born AI leaderboard tripled revenue from $30M in January, competing for post-training dollars against Scale AI, Mercor, and Surge.
Ramp's latest index pegs the median at $11.38 — but the heaviest users are pushing token budgets toward engineer-salary territory.
The Mercor co-founder says he's counted six rounds in six months where Sequoia split investments into two tranches at very different prices.
Out-of-work TV writers are training chatbots for Mercor, Outlier and Turing, joining a contractor economy that's volatile, opaque and growing fast.
A February 2026 Mercor study tested top agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind on real banker, consultant, and lawyer work. They flunked.
Amateur sleuths used a Mercor breach and a guessed URL to reach restricted Anthropic models, according to a Bloomberg report.
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