LoRA co-creator Edward Hu joins Mercor to train Qwen-based model as Google, xAI build in-house data teams
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-10
A follow-up in the same thread: LoRA co-creator Edward Hu joined Mercor to train models, with its first built on Alibaba's Qwen. Data demand expires — tasks are dropped once models hit 70% accuracy (Epoch AI) — and the biggest buyers are building in-house: Google hired Mechanize's founder and team; xAI cut 500 generalist labelers. Next data teachers: factory workers with head cameras.
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