How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor’s CEO
TechCrunch AI·January 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM·
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Three-year-old startup Mercor has become a $10 billion middleman in AI’s data gold rush. The company connects AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic with former employees of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and white-shoe law firms, paying them up to $200 an hour to share their industry expertise and train the AI models that could eventually automate their former employers out of business. Today we’re bringing […]