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November 10, 2026

AI Training Startup Mercor Raises $750 Million at $20 Billion Valuation

Mercor, a platform that pays human experts to create training data and evaluation tests for AI models, announced a $750 million Series D round on November 10 that values the company at $20 billion. The round doubles the roughly $10 billion valuation Reuters reported after…

Meta Bets on Small Teams and Big Spend with Scale AI's Alexandr Wang at the Helm

Meta has handed control of its artificial intelligence ambitions to Alexandr Wang, the 29-year-old founder of Scale AI, in a move that signals both a philosophical shift toward leaner research teams and a financial commitment that dwarfs its previous AI spending.