Mercor now pays experts over $5M a day, vs $1M for an entire year two years ago
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-11
Mercor's Foody puts expert payouts at over $5 million per day. Two years ago the figure was about $1 million for an entire year — a more than a-thousand-fold increase. The people being paid are converting professional expertise into AI training material, evidence that the expert-data market is growing explosively.
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