AI Training Data Market Booms as Mercor Founders Become Youngest Self-Made Billionaires

The AI training data market is booming: Mercor's three 22-year-old founders became the youngest self-made billionaires, and LoRA co-author Edward Hu joined Mercor. Due to the paradox that data becomes obsolete once models master a task (70% accuracy), big buyers like Google and xAI are building in-house data teams.

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