[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-mercor-raises-750m-at-a-20b-valuation-for-expert-ai-training":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12759,"mercor-raises-750m-at-a-20b-valuation-for-expert-ai-training","Mercor Raises $750M at a $20B Valuation for Expert AI Training","Mercor, which pays experts to train and test AI models, doubled its valuation to $20B with a $750M Series D that includes Nvidia and Salesforce.","Mercor, a San Francisco startup that pays experts to train and test AI models, has raised $750M in a Series D round at a $20B valuation.\n\nThat is twice the $10B valuation Mercor reached when it raised $350M in October 2025. Named investors include Benchmark, Felicis, Fundomo, General Catalyst, Nvidia, Salesforce, Sapphire Ventures and Zoom.\n\nThe business is easy to describe and harder to replace. A model can absorb vast amounts of text on its own, but judging whether an answer is correct, rather than merely fluent, in a specialized field takes someone who knows the subject. Mercor supplies those people, and AI developers use their work to train models and to test them afterward. It competes for that role with data-labeling companies such as Scale AI, which also sells human-supplied training data to AI developers.\n\nThe investor list is worth a second look. Nvidia, Salesforce and Zoom all sell products that depend on AI demand continuing to grow. Backing a supplier of training data is a bet on the supply chain behind the models, not only on one startup.\n\nThe open question is how long that supply chain needs this much human input. If models get better at generating and checking their own training material, the demand for paid expert review could shrink. A $20B price assumes it does not.","[\"mercor\",\"funding\",\"ai-training\",\"series-d\"]","2026-11-10T16:42:05.000Z","2026-11-10T18:17:59.437Z","2026-11-10T18:18:00.928Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the source-referencing process language ('the source does not say so', 'what the source leaves out'), which reads as leftover editing notes, and note that the source is truncated, so the 'no revenue figures' caveat can't be asserted. Also fix the unsupported timing ('doubled in about a year', since the new round's date isn't given) and the unsupported claim that Mercor sells expertise 'by the hour'.","resolved","startups",[32,33,34,35],"mercor","funding","ai-training","series-d",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fmercor-750m-series-d-20bn-valuation",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,68,73,78,83,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7144,"2026-11-12T13:27:45.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",1128,"2026-11-11T18:05:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Deals","deals",642,"2026-11-12T14:00:00.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Policy","policy",619,"2026-11-12T12:53:36.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",364,"2026-11-12T11:12:32.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Hardware","hardware",336,"2026-11-12T11:24:43.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Science","science",230,"2026-11-12T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":80,"count":81,"latest_published_at":82},"Software","software",168,"2026-11-11T17:36:49.000Z",{"name":84,"slug":30,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Startups",159,"2026-11-11T12:30:00.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"General","general",118,"2026-11-11T16:49:42.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"Gaming","gaming",107,"2026-11-12T10:09:03.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]