How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor’s CEO

Three-year-old startup Mercor has change into a $10 billion intermediary in AI’s knowledge gold rush. The corporate connects AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic with former workers of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and white-shoe legislation corporations, paying them as much as $200 an hour to share their trade experience and practice the AI fashions that would ultimately automate their former employers out of enterprise.  

Right now we’re bringing you a dialog with CEO Brendan Foody from this yr’s Disrupt, the place he defined why AI labs want high-skilled contractors as a substitute of crowdsourced labor, how Scale AI’s troubles accelerated Mercor’s rise, and why he thinks your complete financial system will converge on coaching AI brokers. 

Hearken to the total episode to listen to about: 

• How Foody went from AWS credit score consulting in highschool to a $10 billion valuation 

• Why the highest 10-20% of contractors drive nearly all of mannequin enchancment, and the way Mercor finds them 

• The grey space between worker data and company secrets and techniques (and whether or not Goldman Sachs needs to be fearful) 

• Why Foody believes all data work will ultimately change into coaching knowledge for AI brokers 

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