Mercor
News and updates about the Mercor AI staffing platform
Micro1 Bids $12.5M to Outbid Google for Spirit Airlines' Data
Micro1 submitted a late $12.5 million counterbid for bankrupt Spirit Airlines' internal records, topping Google's already-agreed $10 million deal. The archive covers 17,000 employees, and unions are fighting to keep it out of AI training pipelines.
Micro1 Hits $500M Run Rate as It Chases Mercor and Handshake
Micro1's gross annual run rate went from $100 million to $500 million in eight months. Founder Ali Ansari says the company won't sell data to Chinese labs, and is already building the product he thinks will outgrow training data entirely.
Own a Company? AI Labs Are Paying Up to $1M a Year for Your Workflow Data
Frontier labs ran out of public internet text to train on. Mercor and micro1 now pay ordinary mid-size companies six and seven figures a year to license the anonymized record of how their teams work.
The LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack That Exposed Mercor
A LiteLLM supply-chain attack exposed Mercor to class-action lawsuits and a possible 4TB data leak — biometric footage and PII for 40,000 workers.